**  Programmer's Technical Reference for MSDOS and the IBM PC **
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                       How to use this Reference


  This reference changes so often that any attempt to format it for 
pagination would be a tremendous waste of time.  Simply printing the 
thing out and letting the pagebreaks fall where they may is how most 
people do it.  The neatest solution is Vern Buerg's LIST.COM or 
SideKick's file view function. 

  An efficient method of using the Reference is to concatenate all the 
chapters together with the COPY command, ie COPY CONTENTS + 
CHAPTER.001 + CHAPTER.002 + ..... + CHAPTER.010   REF.  (REF being the 
new file name for the concatenated files.) With LIST.COM, the 
backslash (\) or F9 key will search for strings. You can then dump 
pieces of text to a disk file or your printer. 

  If you work better with a printout than scanning with a file viewer, 
try setting your printer to 132 columns.  This allows a nice margin 
for writing notes, and eliminates the problem some printers have when 
printing 80 character wide text.  Some of the text and charts in the 
reference are a full 80 columns wide; unfortunately some printers wrap 
automatically at 79 columns. Some printers don't handle a combination 
of compressed print and graphics characters very well either.  You may 
have to use the PRTRFIX.COM program provided on Disk 1 to squelch the 
graphics for printing.