Alpha Draw Utility Operating Instructions Page 1 _________________________________________ ALDDIR - Directory display __________________________ This utility is used to display drawing titles on the screen and may be run on a non-graphics terminal. The format is: ALDDIR [filespec] Where filespec is an optional file specification name or wildcard specifier. Examples: .ALDDIR List all drawing files .ALDDIR F* List only drawings begin- ning with the letter F .ALDDIR SCH??? List only drawings matching the first letters SCH ALDDSP - Drawing display ________________________ This utility is used to display a drawing on the screen from an AMOS command prompt. It must be run on a graphics terminal and requires a minimum of 300K memory partition. The format is: ALDDSP filespec[/P=pagenumber] Examples: .ALDDSP CLOWN Display drawing CLOWN.DRW .ALDDSP COMIC/P=3 Draw only page: 3 .ALDDSP SYMLIB.DSY Display symbol library file named SYMLIB.DSY Alpha Development & Support, Inc. Alpha Draw Utilities Alpha Draw Utility Operating Instructions Page 2 _________________________________________ ALDPRT - Drawing Print utility ______________________________ This utility may be used to print drawing files directly from an AMOS command prompt. It may be run on a non-graphics terminal but requires a minimum of 300K memory partition. Using this utility allows the user to print out an existing drawing without having to go into Alpha Draw. The printer name, graphics device driver, title header block, and background color options may be selected with a simple command format line. If no printer name or graphics device driver name is specified the default values will be obtained from the Alpha Draw .INI configur- ation file (ALDRAW.INI.) ALDPRT may be run in the background by specifying the /S option switch on the command line. This option suppresses all terminal output messages. If only a print file is desired (i.e. No actual printing to occur), then the printer name may be entered as "NOPRIN" which signals ALDPRT to create a print file but not spool it to a printer. The format is: ALDPRT [printername=]filespec[/S][/T][/G=device][/B[=cc]] [/A] [/P=page#] /S Suppress terminal messages /T Draw a title header block /G= Graphics device driver name (i.e. LASWRT) /B[=cc] Enable background color printing with an optional color override of color # cc /A Append output to existing print file /P= Select and print the specified page only Examples: .ALDPRT COMIC Print drawing COMIC on default printer .ALDPRT LASER=CLOWN Print drawing CLOWN on printer LASER .ALDPRT SHOWOF/S Print drawing SHOWOF with messages suppressed Alpha Development & Support, Inc. Alpha Draw Utilities Alpha Draw Utility Operating Instructions Page 3 _________________________________________ ALDPRT - Drawing Print utility - Continued ______________________________ .ALDPRT BPLAN/B Print BPLAN with the standard background color .ALDPRT BPLAN/B=3 Print BPLAN with a back- ground color of 3 .ALDPRT BPLAN/T Print BPLAN with the title header block displayed .ALDPRT PCVISN/A/P=4 Print PCVISN - page 4 and append output to existing print file .ALDPRT REMODL/G=LJL150 Print REMODL using graphics device driver LJL150 .ALDPRT NOPRIN=REMODL Only create an output print file .ALDPRT LASER2=OCEAN/T/B=14/G=LASWRT/S Print drawing OCEAN on printer LASER2 using graphics device driver LASWRT with a title block, a background color of 14, and suppress all terminal messages. By default, no background color or title header block are printed. Special Note: Each specific graphics device driver must be loaded ____________ into user or system memory prior to printing. ALDPRT is the only utility that is PIC encoded to the system SSD. Alpha Development & Support, Inc. Alpha Draw Utilities Alpha Draw Utility Operating Instructions Page 4 _________________________________________ ALDUTL - General Drawing Utility ________________________________ This program is a general purpose utility that will be enhanced in the future. Currently there are only two functions it can perform. One is to produce a directory listing of drawings that contain external imported graphs. The second is to change the color of an entire drawing. The format is: ALDUTL [filespec] or [*]/G (List graphs) ALDUTL [filespec] or [*]/L (List pages) ALDUTL [output filespec=]input filespec/C=cc (Change color) (Where cc is the numerical color number from 0 to 15) ALDUTL [output filespec=][filespec]/B (Change to black/white) Examples: ALDUTL */G List all drawings and show any references to imported graphs. ALDUTL */L List all drawings with an outline of page numbers. ALDUTL B*/G List only drawings beginning with the letter "B" and show any references to imported graphs. ALDUTL REMODL/C=4 Manipulate the drawing REMODL by changing the color of all segments to color #4. ALDUTL NEWONE=REMODL/C=5 Create a new drawing named NEWONE from REMODL but produce it with all segments color #5. ALDUTL BLACK=REMODL/B Remove all color by translating to black and white (for non-color/ no grey scale output). Alpha Development & Support, Inc. Alpha Draw Utilities .