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%C%by P.I. Nicholson B.Sc., (HONS)


%JL%As its name suggests, this program enables the user to produce 
%JR%enlarged sideways text suitable for printing in banner form (ideal 
for displays at the club workshop etc.).

%JR%The program uses a table of character definitions held in two REM 
%JR%statements for building the enlarged characters. I can't help but 
%JL%feel that I have taken the approach of re-inventing the wheel here, 
%JR%because the character definitions are an exact copy of the Z88 
%JL%character set (i.e. each character is based in a 6x8 matrix).  
%JR%Surely, such a table must already exist in the Z88's internal ROM ? 
%JL%However, I have "PEEKed" high and low for the table's ROM location 
%JR%without success. I would be interested if anyone has any ideas on 
this matter.

%JL%To save programming time, I have only coded the first 64 printable 
%JR%characters of the ASCII table. This includes nearly all the symbols, 
%JL%all the numbers, and all the upper case letters. The program converts 
%JR%any lower case letters entered, into upper case, and any unknown 
symbols are printed as blank spaces.

%JR%The user is able to select the device, the banner text is to be 
%JR%output to. i.e. screen, file or directly to a printer. The file 
%JL%choice outputs the banner to a file called file.ban. This is a useful 
%JR%choice because the file can then be loaded into Pipedream as plain 
%JL%text, and many editing tricks can then be performed. The Pipe- dream 
%JR%example file shows a four line banner. Each line of enlarged text was 
%JL%created separately, and then combined into a single banner by making 
use of the word processor's multi-column mode. 

%JL%Finally, if you have found this program useful or have any 
%JR%suggestions for improvement, send me a postcard - the more exotic the 
better !

Happy printing.
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