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** Programmer's Technical Reference for MSDOS and the IBM PC **
USA copyright TXG 392-616 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
──────────────────────────┤ DOSREF (tm) ├───────────────────────────
ISBN 1-878830-02-3 (disk-based text)
Copyright (c) 1987, 1993 Dave Williams
┌─────────────────────────────┐
│ Shareware Version, 05/25/93 │
│ Please Register Your Copy │
└─────────────────────────────┘
How to use this Reference
This reference changes so often that any attempt to format it for
pagination would be a tremendous waste of time. Simply printing the
thing out and letting the pagebreaks fall where they may is how most
people do it. The neatest solution is Vern Buerg's LIST.COM or
SideKick's file view function.
An efficient method of using the Reference is to concatenate all the
chapters together with the COPY command, ie COPY CONTENTS +
CHAPTER.001 + CHAPTER.002 + ..... + CHAPTER.010 REF. (REF being the
new file name for the concatenated files.) With LIST.COM, the
backslash (\) or F9 key will search for strings. You can then dump
pieces of text to a disk file or your printer.
If you work better with a printout than scanning with a file viewer,
try setting your printer to 132 columns. This allows a nice margin
for writing notes, and eliminates the problem some printers have when
printing 80 character wide text. Some of the text and charts in the
reference are a full 80 columns wide; unfortunately some printers wrap
automatically at 79 columns. Some printers don't handle a combination
of compressed print and graphics characters very well either. You may
have to use the PRTRFIX.COM program provided on Disk 1 to squelch the
graphics for printing.