DOCSMASH (v2.93) By David W. Rettger             REGISTRATION ($05.00)

(Highlights taken from the documentation)

Have you ever downloaded a complicated  program that came with its own
manual and, when you printed the manual, you ended up using what seems
like  your whole  box of  paper to  get hard  copy? If  you have  this
problem, then  DOCSMASH is for  you! It will  print a normal  100 page
document on a maximum  25 sheets of paper.  You do  not lose any text,
but you may  need glasses to read it.   Anyway, it is good  at what it
does.
                           
The DOCSMASH  program is designed  to reduce  the size of  the printed
output of any text  or document file.  It uses EPSON  control codes to
reduce the print size  and adjust line width to enable  the printer to
place four pages  of normal documentation on a single  sheet of paper.
(Each  of these  4  pages equals  one DOCSMASH  page  for purposes  of
describing things below.) New with this  version is the ability to use
other  than  Epson printers.   See  the  instructions below  for  this
feature.

A  few users  have  tried  to DOCSMASH  documents  created  by a  word
processor.  Word  processors usually  insert "soft"  codes into  their
files  for tabs,  pagination,  etc.  These  codes do  a  great job  of
confusing DOCSMASH.   Only smash files which  are pure ASCII  text! If
you  want to  smash a  file from,  say, WordPerfect  you should  first
resave the file as ASCII text.

The  program's  operation   is  pretty  straight  forward.    Run  the
DOCSMASH.EXE program  by typing  the program name  at the  DOS prompt.
Just  follow the  menus and  prompts  throughout the  program and  you
should not have too many problems.  At  any time, hit F10 (and perhaps
<RETURN>) to  terminate DOCSMASH.  Some  machines refuse to  quit when
this command is  issued.  If all else  fails, when asked to  enter the
name of a document to print, you may now type the word END to quit the
program.

Printer  rarameters can  be customised  by entering  the phrase  "RESET
PARAMS" .  You can adjust the print width, number of lines per DOCSMASH
page, the line feed width, and  the paper length (in inches).  Defaults
are:

         Print Width = 164
         Page Length = 58
         Line Feed   = 17
         Paper Len.  = 11
         Left Margin = 0

I  included  page  length  and  line-feed  height  adjustments  due  to
complaints from users with 24 pin printers.  These printers do not seem
to function the  same as 9 pin printers when  emulating Epson commands.
They tend to  run over to the  next page with my  default settings.  If
the defaults wrap to the next page  on your printer, try adjusting line
height, # of lines to print, etc.   RESET PARAMS menu includes the left
margin adjustment.

DOCSMASH will create  a file called DOCSMASH.CFG in  the root directory
of  whatever  the  current  drive  is.   This  file  will  contain  any
parameters you choose to enter, or the defaults.

Hardware Requirements : IBM compatible  computer.  Dot matrix printer 9
                        or 24 pin.