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|         [z][h]LANDMARK SOFTWARE[]
|            [z]=1142 Pomegranate Court    Sunnyvale CA 94087    408-733-4035[][~LM]
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        [b]IMPORTANT:[]  REPRINT and the other programs in the LANDMARK 
          UTILITIES package are neither public domain nor shareware 
          programs.  Rather, they are commercial programs.  The cost of 
          the LANDMARK UTILITIES package is $29.95.  Companies wishing 
          to bundle any or all of these program should contact Landmark 
          Software for bundling prices.  Dealers should ask about our 
          DealerPak.  Corporate users should contact us about multiple 
          copy agreements and site licenses.


                              [b]What Does REPRINT Do?[]

               REPRINT prints a specified number of collated copies of 
          a file that has already been 'printed to disk'.


                        [b]Why Would I Want To Use REPRINT?[]

               REPRINT makes it possible to print collated copies of 
          multi-page documents without operator attention.  

               That may not sound too exciting, but consider this:  If 
          you use your laser printer's facility to create say 10 copies 
          of a document, it will produce 10 copies of page 1, then 10 
          copies of page 2, and so forth--so someone will have to 
          collate the pages.  Worse, it's all too easy to forget to 
          change the setting back to 1 copy--in which case you'll end 
          up with 10 copies of the next job when you only wanted 1.

               Alternately, you can use the print command in your word 
          processor or page makeup program 10 times--which ties you to 
          the keyboard and seems to take forever because of all the 
          processing that must be performed.

               Instead, it's faster to use the 'print to disk' facility 
          of your word processor or page makeup program to print the 
          file once to disk.  Then use REPRINT to create any number of 
          collated copies without further attention--subject, of 
          course, to the input paper capacity of your laser printer.

               If you use IBM's invaluable [b]FileCommand II[] (available 
          for $35 from Landmark), you can easily print multiple 
          collated copies of several multi-page documents without 
          operator attention.

               If you want to free up the computer as well as freeing 
          up the operator, it's desirable to use a print spooling 
          program or external hardware print buffer in conjunction with 
          REPRINT.  That way, when REPRINT transmits data, the data 
          will go to an area of memory instead of going directly to the 
          printer; once REPRINT has transmitted all of its data, you'll 
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          be back at the DOS prompt and can use the computer for other 
          purposes; this occurs in a small fraction of the time that it 
          would take to actually print the data; meanwhile the spooler 
          will transmit the data from memory to the printer, operating 
          in the background, while you perform other operations in the 
          foreground.  

               For example, if you want to be able to print 10 copies 
          of a 10 page document without tying up the computer, you 
          should allocate about 300K (10 copies x 10 pages x 3K per 
          page) of memory to your print spooler.  Many spoolers (such 
          as AST's SuperSpool) can use 'extended' memory which many AT 
          owners have and aren't currently using anyway.  Alternately, 
          you can use a mainframe-style spooler such as [b]PRINTQ[] 
          (available for $95 from Landmark) that spools to your hard 
          disk instead of to memory.


                            [b]How Do I Execute REPRINT?[]

               Start by using the 'print to disk' feature of your word 
          processor or page makeup program.  We recommend using an 
          extension such as '[b].PRN[]' on the resulting file to distinguish 
          it from the original file and to indicate that it is ready to 
          be dumped to the printer without any additional processing.

               Then use the REPRINT command:  [b]REPRINT ?[] will summarize 
          the syntax.  For example,

                          [b]REPRINT C:\WORD\MYFILE.PRN 5[]

          would print 5 collated copies of the specified file.  If you 
          don't specify the number of copies, the default value of 1 
          copy will be used.  Wildcards are permitted in the filename.

               If you have documents that need to be reprinted 
          periodically, you'll find it desirable to maintain a 
          directory of '.PRN' files that have already been "printed to 
          disk" so that they're ready to be dumped to the printer by 
          REPRINT on a moment's notice.








                         [z][g]Landmark Software[]
                             [b]1142 Pomegranate Court[]
                               [b]Sunnyvale, CA 94087[]
                                  [b]408-733-4035[]
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