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New version of TEK

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I have just put a new version of TEK in utl$exe:.  The new version 
supports printing in black and white on the QMS printer next to Lois 
(LQ0:).  

Why would you want to do such a thing?  Well, grayscale pictures are 
1/3 the data of color pics, so they print about 3 times faster.  Also,
the QMS prints on plain paper, and so is quite a bit cheaper to print on.
The output looks pretty good, especially if you just need to know shapes 
and relative scales of objects.

The black & white mode also works on the Tektronix printer, but you have to 
save the output in a file, then do a "PRINT/QUE=TEK filename.TEK" to 
actually print it.

How do I use this wonder?  Easy, just specify '/BW' on the command line, as
in 'TEK/BW file' or 'TEK/BW' (it will ask you for the filename in this case).
When it asks you 'Print now and delete file?', a 'yes' will print to the QMS,
a 'no' will save a black and white Postscript copy to a file for later.

The other new thing is the '/DEFAULT' switch, which will accept all the 
default answers to the questions without asking you.  This allows you to
get a printout without answering any questions at all.  A 'TEK/DEFAULT X.RAD'
will print X.RAD on the TEK (in color) with no other input from you.  All
cels will be selected by default.  A 'TEK/BW/DEF ZZZ.RAD' will print all cels
from ZZZ.RAD to the QMS printer in grayscale.

				-- jim
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Jul 12, 1991