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A-Shell Development History

Navigation: Version 4.7/4.8, builds 796-845

816.1 - 29 September 2002

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1. (WINDOWS) Eliminate a bit of confusion in the operation of the printer configuration option PITCH=AUTO.  The documentation indicates that it will scan the first 15 lines of the print files and use the longest line (not counting trailing spaces) to decide on the necessary font size (depending on the CPP value.)  In reality, it was allowing the longest line to be 3 columns longer than the first CPP specification without triggering condensed print.  (This was intended to accommodate some reports designed for impact printers that managed to get a few more than 80 columns across the line by using part of the margin.)  However, it was causing both confusion and chopped off lines when printing such reports on laser and inkjet printers which cannot print in the margin. So now it triggers the condensed print size (determined by the second CPP parameter) if any of the first 15 lines goes even one column beyond the first CPP value.

2. INDEXED'STATS now returns information on the keys as well as the data layout.