A4UP - an Amiga DeskJet/LaserJet Utility

                version 1.0 copyright G Chiu 22Feb92

This is the first release of A4UP, and represents an Intuitionised version
version of ADJ4UP released to a couple of BBSs in 1990.

It is intended for use with the HP LaserJet ( and clones ), and the DeskJet
series.  The latter needs added memory to accept the custom font.  It prints
to A4 paper.  I don't have access to American letter paper but guess it that
it should be OK, though the page length may need reducing, and it might not
be centred on the page. The only other requirement is for good eyesight to
read the printed output.

A4UP uses the Fox/Dawson req.library which is included and must be placed
into your libs: directory.

A4UP prints a text file to A4 paper in portrait mode using two columns of
either 80 or 85 columns wide and a maximum of 120 lines per physical page.
This is 4 pages of text of 80 or 85 columns by 60 lines of logical page, and
uses Hexagon Product's shareware and proprietary tiny font of point size 3.8
and pitch of 21.4 allowing 171 characters per line on an 8½ inch page.

The Intuition version contains documentation called from the HELP gadget,
and when run from the CLI will bring up the CLI help with the "-?" flag.
Note that the default printer from the Intuition version is the LaserJet,
and from the CLI is the DeskJet.

Some more explanation follows regarding CLI usage:

    A4UP -oram:out myfile

    prints 'myfile' to the file ram:out

    A4UP -w myfile

    prints 'myfile' to the default port par: using 85 columns

    A4UP -w widefile -w thinfile

    prints widefile to the default port par: using 85 columns and then prints
    thinfile to par: using 80 columns ( the second -w toggles the column width
    back to 80 )

    NB: At each invocation the font is downloaded to the printer only with
    the first file being printed and any other files following in the command
    line being printed assume the font is present.  So, don't print first
    to a file and then to the printer and expect it to work!

The Intuition version is slightly crippled in that it does a rather system
unfriendly busy wait which ties up the CPU.  This is fixed in the registered
version ( see HELP gadget for details ) which may add extended file selection
to allow a number of files to be printed at one hit.  When used as a CLI
utility this limitation is not present.

I don't have any working tools ( except those running under KS 1.1 ) which
monitor memory allocation/deallocation, or check for low memory being trampled
on etc., so please send bug reports to:

    G Chiu, 5 Kate Way, Karori, Wellington, New Zealand

    or G.CHIU2 on GEnie

Plans: Write File Comment will one day file comment the file being printed
with the comment that it was printed on such and such a day.

Bugs: With v1.0, you betcha!

A4UP is not to be released onto any disk collection without the written
permission of the author ( which will usually be granted ).

Updates:

v1.1

23 February - forgot to call purgefiles on the filerequester
            - added an abort requester for CLI operation
            - added pause flag -h for CLI operation
            - released the requestor memory
            - added extended file selection ( for registered version )