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WHAT YOU NEED
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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
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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
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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 <RETURN>.
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
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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 <RETURN>, OR CTRL-E OR CTRL-X. YOU CAN USE
LEFT-ARROW OR DELETE TO DELETE THE LAST CHARACTER YOU TYPED, OR <ESC>
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
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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
<RETURN>. 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 <RETURN>, 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 <RETURN>
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 <RETURN>, BUT USE RIGHT-ARROW TO DISPLAY,
ONE-BY-ONE, ALL TEXT FILES MATCHING YOUR ENTRY. WHEN THE FILE THAT YOU
WANT APPEARS, HIT <RETURN> 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 <RETURN>, 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 <RETURN>, THE EQUAL SIGN IS TAKEN LITERALLY.
SIDEWAYS OPTIONS
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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
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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 <RETURN>.
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.