Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!philmds!leo
From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Screen Dump Set up
Summary: use "Save Dekstop"
Message-ID: <915@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 89 09:41:58 GMT
References: <8901071651.AA03581@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Organization: Philips I&E DTS Eindhoven
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In article <8901071651.AA03581@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) writes:
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|By default, the Atari uses 1280, not 960, as the # of dots per line for a
|screen dump to a printer. This can be overridden by using the CONTROL.ACC
|settings but it requires having to have CONTROL.ACC resident.
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|I want to use my Personal Pascal to write a short code to put in my auto folder
|to set the printer to 960 dots. I will have  to use the following function:
    [rest omitted]...

Unless I'm mistaken, you're asking for a way to default the "dots per
line" to 960. This is easy enough. Set it to 960 in the ACCessory
you're using, then click on 'Save Desktop' of 'Options'. This should do
the trick (at least it did for me). A diff between two desktop.inf's
revealed this:

(with 1280 dots per line)
#b000000

(with 960 dots per line)
#b001000

so it seems that the printer info is stored in the #b slot. I don't
know how it looks like if you have a different accessory configuration
than mine, though. Probably the #<lcase char> lines are there one for
each accessory.

About the Personal Pascal question: I don't think I can help you with
this, since it's already some years ago I switched to use C (and never
regretted it).

                Leo.