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Manual for 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.
More exactly: To test printer output, such as from IdeaList V 3.5

GDOS-Check can do two things:

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

- Write  a  list of all fonts in all sizes that are installed  for the  GDOS
  device driver being used.


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

After start-up  GDOS-Check asks which GDOS device driver  is to be used.  If 
you  have  installed  several  drivers,  you can select one of them.  Screen 
drivers (number  smaller  than 21) and metafile drivers (Number 31 - 40) are 
ignored by GDOS-Check.  Otherwise you may check all drivers which can output
fonts.  Any driver that has no fonts defined in ASSIGN.SYS and/or EXTEND.SYS 
(SpeedoGDOS)  will create  only an empty font list  and  will not print  the 
scale on the test page.

In the following alert box you can decide which of the two tests you want to 
be carried out. or whether to quit the program.

Test page:
With  the  four  scales you can see the additional margins you can set in an 
adaptation  file  (IXA)  of  IdeaList  with the  key  words  "GdosMargin_L", 
"GdosMargin_R", "GdosMargin_T" and "GdosMargin_B"  (values in inches with up
to 2 decimal places), say to set symmetrical margins for landscape printing.
Note that some  GDOS  drivers  print out a bigger area  than will fit on one 
sheet of A4 paper, so GDOS-Check will divide the test printing onto 2 pages.
In that case you must restrict the vertical size of the page  in the printer
adaptation  "GdosMargin_B"  entry to the figure that is at the bottom of the 
scale on the first sheet of the test page printout.

Font list:
Speedo fonts  (which  are  freely scalable, you know) are printed in 12 pts. 
Note that the GDOS drivers use every font defined in  ASSIGN.SYS  (i.e. the 
'fixed' pixel fonts, not the scalable Speedo fonts)  in two sizes:  Once in 
the original size and again in a 100% enlarged size. Of course you also may 
use these enlarged fonts but the printer resolution is halved and the fonts 
look a little blocky since for each pixel in the font file 2 x 2 pixels are 
output on the printer.


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 to software and hardware by 
the use of the program.


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

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

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