/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/ \/ / SIDEWAYS SOFT-DOX \ \ / S BY S I I D THE PENGUIN D E E W & W A A Y JAY OF A.P.P.L.E. Y S S / FOR \ \ / / THE SOUTH POLE.....[312] 677-7140 \ \ / /\ /\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ WHAT YOU NEED ------------- TO RUN SIDEWAYS YOU WILL NEED AN APPLE ][+,e,c COMPUTER WITH AT LEAST 48K, AT LEAST ONE DISK DRIVE, A PRINTER INTERFACE CARD, AND A DOT-MATRIX PRINTER WITH DOT-ADDRESSABLE GRAPHICS CAPABILITY. FOR A LIST OF CURRENTLY SUPPORTED PRINTERS AND PRINTER INTERFACE CARDS, SEE THE SECTION ENTITLED 'INSTALLATION GUIDE'. WHAT'S ON YOUR DISK ------------------- YOUR SIDEWAYS DISK CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING FILES: SIDEWAYS.........THIS IS THE SIDEWAYS PROGRAM INSTALL..........THIS PROGRAM ALLOWS YOU TO SET-UP SIDEWAYS FOR YOUR HARDWARE CONFIGURATION (PRINTER MODEL,INTERFACE CARD,SLOT NUMBER) SAMPLE.PRF.......THIS IS A SAMPLE SPREADSHEET, WHICH CAN BE USED IMMEDIATELY TO DEMO SIDEWAYS PRINTING. INSTALLING THE PROGRAM ---------------------- BEFORE YOU CAN USE THE SIDEWAYS PROGRAM, YOU MUST TELL IT THE TYPE OF PRINTER YOU HAVE, THE TYPE OF INTERFACE CARD YOU HAVE, IN WHICH SLOT THE INTERFACE CARD IS LOCATED, AND THE NUMBER OF DATA BITS PER BYTE THAT YOUR PRINTER WILL ACCEPT (NORMALLY 8). 1. PUT YOUR SIDEWAYS DISK IN DRIVE 1 AND TURN ON THE COMPUTER. 2. WHEN THE SCREEN TITLE APPEARS, TYPE THE CHARACTER "I" (FOR INSTALL). BE SURE TO DO THIS BEFORE THE MAIN SIDEWAYS MENU APPEARS. 3. THE "INSTALL" PROGRAM WILL TELL YOU HOW SIDEWAYS IS CURRENTLY INSTALLED, AND WILL PRESENT A MENU FOR CHANGING THE INSTALLATION. SELECT WHICHEVER ITEMS NEED TO BE ALTERED; THE PROGRAM WILL LEAD YOU THROUGH THE VARIOUS OPTIONS IN A SERIES OF MENUS. 4. WHEN YOU HAVE MADE ALL THE NECESSARY CHANGES, USE THE "TEST INTERFACE" OPTION TO DO A PRELIMINARY CHECK OF THE SYSTEM. THIS WILL SEND A LINE OF TEXT CONTINUOUSLY, INSURING THAT YOUR SELECTION OF PRINTER INTERFACE CARD AND AND SLOT NUMBER WERE CORRECT. 5. NOW USE THE "EXIT" OPTION TO LEAVE THE INSTALL PROGRAM AND START THE NEWLY INSTALLED SIDEWAYS PROGRAM. 6. CHECK OUT THE SYSTEM BY PRINTING THE SAMPLE SPREADSHEET THAT WE'VE INCLUDED ON YOUR SIDEWAYS DISK WHEN THE SIDEWAYS SCREEN COMES UP, TYPE IN "SAMPLE.PRF", FOLLOWED BY . IF YOU BUY A NEW PRINTER, OR OTHERWISE CHANGE YOUR CONFIGURATION, MAKE SURE YOU KEEP SIDEWAYS ABREAST OF NEW DEVELOPMENTS BY REPEATING THE ABOVE PROCEDURE. REFER TO THE SECTION ENTITLED "INSTALLATION GUIDE" FOR INFORMATION ON PARTICULAR PRINTERS AND INTERFACE CARDS, AND HOW THEY SHOULD BE INSTALLED. STARTING UP THE PROGRAM ----------------------- PUT YOUR SIDEWAYS DISK IN DRIVE 1 AND TURN ON YOUR COMPUTER FIRST, A TITLE SCREEN WILL APPEAR, FOLLOWED, AFTER A FEW SECONDS, BY THE SIDEWAYS MENU. WHAT YOU SEE ARE ALL THE CURRENT SETTINGS OF THE FORMATTING AND PRINTER OPTIONS. YOU MAY ALTER ANY OF THESE OPTIONS, SAVE THE NEW SETTING TO DISK, SELECT A FILE FOR SIDEWAYS PRINTING, OR EXIT TO A DIFFERENT PROGRAM. THE CURSOR ALWAYS POINTS TO A HIGHLIGHTED FIELD; INITIALLY IT POINTS TO THE PRINT FIELD. USE CTRL-E AND CTRL-X TO MOVE THE CURSOR AROUND THE SCREEN TO DIFFERNT FIELDS (ON AN APPLE IIe USE UP-ARROW AND DOWN-ARROW). IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ALTER THE VALUE OF A FIELD, SIMPLY POSITION THE CURSOR TO THAT FIELD AND RE-ENTER IT. FOR MOST OF THE FIELDS, YOU WOULD SIMPLY ENTER THE NEW VALUE AND TERMINATE YOUR ENTRY WITH , OR CTRL-E OR CTRL-X. YOU CAN USE LEFT-ARROW OR DELETE TO DELETE THE LAST CHARACTER YOU TYPED, OR TO DELETE YOUR ENTIRE ENTRY. IF YOUR ENTRY IS INVALID, YOU WILL GET AN ERROR MESSAGE, AND THE FIELD YOU JUST ENTERED WILL REVERT ITSELF TO ITS PREVIOUS VALUE. THE REST OF THE FIELDS ARE "TOGGLE" FIELDS: YOU CAN CHANGE THEIR CONTENTS SIMPLY BY STRIKING ANY ALPHANUMERIC KEY (SUCH AS THE SPACE BAR). THESE FIELDS INCLUDE HORIZONTAL FORM SIZE, CHARACTER FONT, AND DOUBLE STRIKE. SELECTING A FILE TO PRINT ------------------------- TO PRINT A FILE, POSITION THE CURSOR TO THE PRINT FILE FIELD AND TYPE IN THE NAME OF THE FILE YOU WANT TO PRINT, TERMINATE BY HITTING . ENTER THE FILE NAME IN NORMAL DOS FORMAT: filename[,Sn][,Dn][,Vn] (S,D, AND V ARE SLOT, DRIVE, AND VOLUME. AS INDICATED BY THE BRACKETS, THE ARE OPTIONAL PARAMETERS,) ONCE PRINTING HAS BEGUN, THE FOLLOWING IS DISPLAYED: STRIKE "P" TO STOP PRINTING IF YOU DO STRIKE "P", THE PRINTER WILL STOP PRINTING AT THE CURRENT LINE AND DO A FORM FEED. AFTER YOUR FILE HAS BEEN PRINTED, YOU MAY ONCE AGAIN ALTER THE OPTION SETTINGS, ENTER A NEW FILE NAME FOR PRINTING OR EXIT TO ANOTHER PROGRAM. SLOT, DRIVE, VOLUME: IF YOU DON'T SPECIFY A SLOT OR DRIVE NUMBER, SIDEWAYS WILL USE THE DEFAUTL SLOT AND DRIVE. INITIALLY, THE DEFAULT IS THE SLOT AND DRIVE FROM WHICH SIDEWAYS WAS BOOTED (NORMALLY SLOT 6, DRIVE 1). WHENEVER YOU SPECIFY A SLOT OR DRIVE WITH A FILENAME, IT BECOMES THE NEW DEAFULT. IF YOU DON'T SPECIFY A FILENAME, BUT TYPE IN A SLOT AND/OR DRIVE NUMBER, FOLLOWED BY , SIDEWAYS WILL CHANGE THE DEFAULT SLOT AND DRIVE WITHOUT ATTEMPTING TO PRINT ANYTHING. YOU MUST REMEMBER TO PRECEDE THE DRIVE OR SLOT NUMBER WITH A COMMA. FOR EXAMPLE, TO CHANGE THE DEFAULT DRIVE TO DRIVE 2, TYPE IN: ,D2 IF YOU SPECIFY A VOLUME NUMBER, SIDEWAYS WILL MATCH THIS NUMBER TO THE VOLUME NUMBER ON THE DISK, AND GIVE YOU AN ERROR ON A MISMATCH. WILDCARDS: IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE FILE YOU WANT TO PRINT, YOU CAN EXAMINE THE FILENAMES ON YOUR DISK BY USING A "WILCARD" IN THE FILENAME YOU ENTER. THE EQUAL (=) SIGN IS THE WILDCARD CHARACTER-IT STANDS FOR ANY SEQUENCE OF CHARACTERS IN THE CORRESPONDING POSITION OF THE FILENAME. FOR INSTANCE, P=W WOULD STAND FOR ANY FILENAME STARTING WITH P AND ENDING WITH W. AFTER ENTERING THE FILENAME WITH THE WILDCARD IN IT, DON'T TYPE , BUT USE RIGHT-ARROW TO DISPLAY, ONE-BY-ONE, ALL TEXT FILES MATCHING YOUR ENTRY. WHEN THE FILE THAT YOU WANT APPEARS, HIT TO PRINT IT. HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF WILDCARDS: = ALL FILES ON DEFAULT DRIVE =,D2 ALL FILES ON DRIVE 2 =ING ALL FILES ENDING IN ING FILENAME RULES: YOUR FILE MST BE ON A DOS 3.3 DISK. DOS ASSIGNS EVERY FILE ON YOUR DISK A "FILE TYPE", WHICH GENERALLY DESCRIBES THE FORMAT OR PURPOSE OF THE FILE. THE "TEXT" FILE TYPE INDICATES A FILE COMPOSED OF PRINTABLE CHARACTERS-THIS IS THE TYPE OF FILE SIDEWAYS EXPECTS, AND IF YOU ENTER A FILE OF A DIFFERENT TYPE, SIDEWAYS WILL NOT RECOGNIZE IT. TEXT FILES ARE INDICATED BY THE "T" CODE NEXT TO THE FILE NAME WHEN YOU CATALOG YOUR DISK. YOU SHOULD NOT USE FILE NAMES WITH EMBEDDED CONTROL CHARACTERS, OR WITH FLASHING OR INVERSE CHARACTERS. WHILE SIDEWAYS WILL HANDLE LOWER-CASE CHARACTERS IN A FILENAME, IT IS GOOD PRACTICE TO AVOID USING THEM. SIDEWAYS WILL DISREGARD CASE WHEN YOU USE RIGHT-ARROW TO SEARCH FOR A FILE; HOWEVER, WHEN YOU TERMINATE YOUR FILENAME ENTRY WITH , ALL THE CHARACTERS OF THE FILENAME MUST BE IN THE CORRECT CASE FOR THE FILE TO BE FOUND. WHEN YOU USE RIGHT-ARROW TO SEARCH FOR A MATCHING FILENAME, THE EQUAL SIGN (=) IS A WILDCARD; BUT WHEN YOU TERMINATE YOUR FILENAME ENTRY WITH , THE EQUAL SIGN IS TAKEN LITERALLY. SIDEWAYS OPTIONS ---------------- SETTING PAPER DIMENSIONS: HORIZONTAL FORM FEED REFERS TO YOUR PAPER WIDTH. IT WILL TOGGLE BETWEEN 8 INCHES AND 13 INCHES. IF YOU HAVE A NARROW CARRIAGE PRINTER, YOU SHOULD LEAVE IT SET TO 8 INCHES. VERICAL FORM FEED IS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN PERFORATIONS OF YOUR PRINTER PAPER. WHENEVER SIDEWAYS IS DONE PRINTING A PAGE, IT FORM FEEDS TO THE NEXT MULTIPLE OF VERTICAL FORM SIZE. IT IS NORMALLY SET TO 11 INCHES. SETTING THE STYLE OF THE PRINTOUT: DOUBLE STRIKE IS A TOGGLE FIELD WHICH MAY BE ON OR OFF. IF IT'S ON, EACH LINE WILL BE PRINTED TWICE, FOR ADDED PRINT DENSITY. CHARACTER FONT IS A TOGGLE FIELD WHICH GIVES YOU A CHOICE OF VARIOUS TYPE SIZES, FROM TINY TO EXTRA LARGE. ON THE RIGHT OF THE SCREEN, THE DIMENSIONS OF THE "DOT-MATRIX" - THE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL PRINT DOTS THAT ARE USED TO MAKE UP EACH CHARACTER IN THE SELECTED FONT ARE SHOWN. CHARACTER SPACING IS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE CHARACTER COLUMNS, MEASURED IN TERMS OF THE VERTICAL DOT DENSITY OF THE PRINTER. YOU CAN CROWD CHARACTERS TOGETHER, OR SPREAD THEM APART, BY MAKING THIS NUMBER SMALLER OR LARGER-THE RESULTING NUMBER OF CHARACTERS PER INCH IS DISPLAYED AT THE RIGHT. LINE SPACING IS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE PRINT LINES, KEASURED IN TERMS OF HORIZONTAL DOT DENSITY OF THE PRINTER. YOU CAN CROWD LINES TOGETHER OR SPREAD THEM APART BY MANIPULATING THIS VALUE-THE RESULTING NUMBER OF LINES PER INCH IS DISPLAYED AT THE RIGHT. YOU MAY SET A DIFFERENT CHARACTER AND LINE SPACING FOR EACH CHARACTER FONT; WHEN YOU CHANGE FONTS, YOU AUTOMATICALLY REVERT TO THE CHARACTER AND LINE SPACING ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEW FONT. SETTING THE FORMAT OF THE PAGE: LEFT MARGIN CONTROLS THE AMOUNT OF WHITE SPACE BETWEEN TOP-OF-FORM AND THE LEFTMOST SIDEWAYS PRINT COLUMN TOP MARGIN CONTROLS THE AMOUNT OF WHITE SPACE BETWEEN THE RIGHT EDGE OF THE PAPER AND THE 1ST SIDEWAYS PRINTED LINE. BOTTOM MARGIN CONTROLS THE AMOUNT OF WHITE SPACE BETWEEN THE LAST SIDEWAYS PRINTED LINE AND THE LEFT EDGE OF THE PAPER. THE AMOUNT OF SPACE AVAILABLE FOR PRINTING IS DETERMINED BY SUBTRACTING TOP MARGIN AND BOTTOM MARGIN FROM HORIZONTAL FORM SIZE. THE PROGRAM AUTOMATICALLY COMPUTES THE NUMBER OF LINES THAT WILL FIT ON EACH PAGE, AND DISPLAYS THIS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE SCREEN. OTHER OPTION: STARTING PAGE ALLOWS YOU TO SKIP OVER THE INITIAL PAGES OF A PRINT FILE; IT IS NORMALLY SET TO 1. SAVING OPTION SETTINGS TO DISK ------------------------------ ONCE YOU HAVE SET UP THE SIDEWAYS OPTIONS AS YOU LIKE THEM, YOU CAN SAVE THEM TO DISK BY TYPING CTRL-S, AND RELOAD THEM FROM DISK BY TYPING CTRL-L. THE OPTION SETTINGS ARE SAVED IN A FILE CALLED SWOPTIONS. WHEN YOU TYPE CTRL-S, THE CURRENT OPTION SETTINGS ARE WRITTEN TO SWOPTIONS ON THE DEFAULT SLOT AND DRIVE. WHEN YOU TYPE CTRL-L, THE OPTION SETTINGS ARE LOADED FROM SWOPTIONS ON THE DEFAULT SLOT AND DRIVE. REMEMBER THAT YOU CAN ALTER THE DEFAULT SLOT AND DRIVE BY ENTERING THEM IN THE PRINT FILE FIELD WITH A BLANK FILENAME, FOLLOWED BY . YOU CAN ALSO SAVE THE OPTION SETTINGS TO THE SIDEWAYS DISK ITSELF. IF YOU HAVE DONE SO, THEY WILL BE RELOADED EVE RY TIME YOU BOOT SIDEWAYS, AND YOU WILLNOT NEED TO USE CTRL-L. IF YOU HAVE ONE STANDARD SET OF OPTION SETTINGS THAT YOU USE MOST OF THE TIME, IT MAKES SENSE TO SAVE THEM TO THE SIDEWAYS DISK. IF YOU HAVE DIFFERENT OPTIONS SETTINGS USED FOR DIFFERENT PRINT FILES, YOU MIGHT WANT TO SAVE EACH OF THE VARIOUS SETTINGS TO A DIFFERENT DISK, AND USE CTRL-L TO READ THEM IN.