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Manual to GDOS-Check v1.0
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What GDOS-Check is good for
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GDOS-Check is a little utility for testing the current GDOS installation.

GDOS-Check can do two things:

- Creating a test page showing the maximum area the GDOS device can print.

- Writing  a  list of all fonts in all sizes that are installed for the used 
GDOS device


How GDOS-Check is used
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Of  course  GDOS-Check  only  is  useful  if  you  have  installed any GDOS. 
GDOS_Check also can manage SpeedoGDOS.

After  the  start GDOS-Check askes which GDOS device to be used. If you have 
installed  several  devices,  you  can  select  one  of them. Screen devices 
(number  smaller  than 21) and metafile drivers (Number 31 - 40) are ignored 
by GDOS-Check. Else you may check all devices which can handle fonts.

Then GDOS-Check shows an alert box to decide which of the two tests you want 
to be done.

Test page:
With  the  four  scales you can see the additional margins, you can set in a 
adaptation   file  (IXA)  of  IdeaList  by  the  key  words  "GdosMargin_L", 
"GdosMargin_R",  "GdosMargin_T"  and "GdosMargin_B". F.i. to set symmetrical 
margins.  Remember,  that  some GDOS devices print out a bigger area than it 
sizes  at  one  sheet of paper. So GDOS-Check will print out the rest of the 
test  page at a secound page. In this case you must reduce the vertical size 
by  "GdosMargin_B" as much as you see at the scale of the first sheet of the 
test page.

Font list:
Speedo  fonts  (which  are  free  scalable, you know) are printed in 12 pts. 
Remember  that  the GDOS drivers use every font defined in ASSIGN.SYS in two 
sizes:  The original size and the 100% enlarged size. Of course you also may 
use these enlarged fonts, but the printer resolution is halved and the fonts 
look blocky a little bit.


Who wrote GDOS-Check
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(C) 1994 by 
  Christoph Bartholme
  Ettlinger Straže 37
  D-76137 Karlsruhe

The  author  is  not  responsible for any damage of software and hardware by 
using the program.


What GDOS-Check costs
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Nothing.
Except some kBytes of free space at your hard disk or a floppy disk.

GDOS-Check is a freeware utility for the shareware program IdeaList.
You may copy and spread it as you want.  Under the condition, that also this 
manual is copied completely and unchanged.

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