PT -- The "Neat" Print Command

PT was written as a replacement for the ubiquitous "TYPE >PRT: <filename>"
command.  It has one major advantage:  it skips over page breaks.  In
addition, PT numbers pages; it also prints the filename at the top of the
first page.

Usage:  After copying PT to your C directory, turn your printer on and set
the print head to just above a page break.  Type "PT <filename>" from the
CLI (no quotes or <>, of course).  (Make sure that the file you're typing
is plain ASCII!)

Example:  PT ram:TextFile.txt

To (Permanently) Interrupt Printing:  Hit the Escape key.

Notes:  For best results, set Preferences for 66 lines/page, 6 lines/inch,
Elite mode, left margin 13, right margin 93.  This will give you 1" margins
(approximately) on all sides of your printed pages.

Tab characters do not print the same number of spaces on my printer as they
do on the screen (I think).  If you get weird results, get rid of Tabs in the
text file (replace them with spaces).

PT will not print page numbers over 99.  I didn't bother writing the code
to handle this, as no sane person will print out over 99 pages at once (well,
maybe your printer is faster than mine).  Anyway, you can always write them
in.

If you hit Escape to cancel a printout, it will take a moment while the
buffer empties.  After that, the CLI may seem to be locked up.  It's not.
Hit the Backspace key to erase that strange-looking Escape character, and
you'll be back in the CLI.  The reason for this is that the CLI interprets
virtually any character typed as a request to pause the console output.
Hitting Backspace erases the character, and the CLI will type out any
output in its buffer.  Ah, for the days of CTRL-S...

Finally:  PT is not copyrighted in any way.  Do what thou wilt shall be the
whole of the Law.  It was written by Bill Sorensen (me) in September of 1988.
If you like it, consider hiring me to do some contract programming jobs.
If you don't, rewrite it yourself (or hire me to do it).  I'm including the
source code.  (Thanks to Dr. Galen for the LVO.i idea; it saved me a lot of
XREFs.)

-- Bill Sorensen
   1415 Wisconsin St.
   LeClaire, IA   52753
   (319) 289-4789