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SidePC is a modified version of the public domain program SIDEWAYS.PAS.
The modifications are principally to those areas that are EPSON specific,
and hopefully, the printer control functions are sufficiently identified
so that persons without IBM Graphics Printers can modify to suit.
(Should be trivial for everyone but Okidata owners; Oki numbers its
printhead pins upside down from the rest of Japan. But if you want
the Oki version, leave a message for Fred Baguhn on the PCUG BBS
608-256-8088 and I'll upload it or arrange to transfer it to you
directly.)
The program is not robust; if your textfile does not have a ^Z as the
end of file marker, it will tell you about it by giving a cryptic error
message such as 1107, and returning you to DOS.
The work around is simple; re-copy your file using the /a switch
e.g. A>COPY/A OLDFILE.DOC NEWFILE.DOC
which will append the ^Z , as shown by the difference in file size.
The program will accept the input file name as a command input; the other
questions, such as file or printer output, and Normal or Compressed type,
will require operator input, or bypassing via. a program such as KEY-FAKE.
CAUTION ON THE FILE OUTPUT OPTION; as you are getting enough output to
map each of the dots on a sheet of paper, have lots of free disk space.
a 9K source file becomes about 160K of output....
While this program doesn't have the font versatility of the commercial
versions, it serves as a useful alternative to nothing.