Disk No: 1303
Program Title: SCRDES, PRNSET
PC-SIG version: 1

SCRDES is a full-screen text/graphics editor designed to ease the coding
of custom screens, such as menu screens, data-entry forms and help
screens, into programs.  The editor was created for use with CGA and
EGA, but it will also function with a monochrome card, albeit with less
distinctive effects.

The program was designed primarily to produce binary files of the type
"character, attribute, character, attribute" for inclusion in Assembly
language programs, or to be read directly from a file to the screen
buffer in a high-level language, but it will also produce ASCII text
files of the form character, character, CR/LF, character, character,
CR/LF (25 lines) suitable for use in interpreted languages such as BASIC
or dBASE III.

PRNSET is a universal printer-setting program that takes its data from a
file, which you can make with any text editor.  This feature makes it
possible to set the print control symbols for any printer and select and
organize the instructions you want to have in PRNSET's repertoire.  It
can operate interactively through a menu, from a batch file, or directly
from the DOS command line.  It is nonresident.

Usually you would use a printer setter to prepare the printer before
printing out a plain text file.  A program which sends its own printer
control instructions (like a wordprocessor) would override anything you
sent it with PRNSET.  Occasionally, however, you can set something which
your program doesn't know about.  If your program can't switch between
draft and letter quality, for instance, you may find you can set one of
these with PRNSET, and the program will leave it that way.  Everything
after PRNSET is optional.  If you enter PRNSET bare, it will use
PRNSET.DAT as the default file, take its data from that, and give you a
menu to choose from.

Usage:  Color Screen Form Designing; Printer Setter.

Special Requirements:  An EGA card and DOS 3.0 or higher.

How to Start:  Type GO (press enter).

Suggested Registration:  $15.00

File Descriptions:

SCRDES   DOC  Information and instructions.
SAMPLE   SCR  Sample file.
SAMPLE   INS  Sample file.
SCRDES   COM  Program file.
PRNSET   EXE  The operating program.
PRNSET   DOC  User's Manual.
PRNSET   DAT  The default data file for PRNSET.EXE.  As supplied,
              it's correct for an Epson LQ-800.
FX-80    DAT  Altenative data file for Epson FX-80 printer.
FX-86    DAT  Data file for Epson FX-86e printer.
IBM      DAT  Data file for IBM "Graphics" printer.
LQ-800   DAT  Data file for Epson LQ-800 printer.
OKI      DAT  Data file for Okidata 92 printer.
XXXXXX   DAT  There may be other data files.  Their names suggest
              what printers they're for.
COUNTPGS EXE  An extra utility.  Use it to count the pages in a
              File before you print it.  Instructions for it are
              in COUNTPGS.DOC.
COUNTPGS DOC  Documentation for COUNTPGS.
E88      EXE  A simple ASCII text editor.  Use it if your word
              Processor won't do straight ASCII.  Instructions for
              it are in E88.DOC.
E88      DOC  Documentation for E88.
README        Instructions and file explanations.

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