User`s guide
Characteristic
File
VMS Interface for QMS Crown Printers4-20
qualifier - character. Lines which have a % character in column one
are comment lines. When you enter the /PARAMETER qualifiers on
the command line, they must contain at least as many characters as
their counterparts in the characteristics file.
Example
The following example characteristic file is used when you connect
the symbiont to a QMS 4525 Crown printer.
% QMS-4525 Characteristic File
% DO NOT MODIFY THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERISTIC LINES!
% DATA_TYPE-emulation, CCITT-ccitt, HPPCL-pcl4,HPPCL-
PCL4,LINEPRINTER-lineprinter,R1
-r1,IMPRESS-
impress,POSTSCRIPT-postscript,PS-postscri
pt,LN03-
ln03+,ANSI-ln03+
STAPLE-staple,OFF-off,ON-on
%
% DO NOT MODIFY THE ABOVE CHARACTERISTIC LINES!
%
OUTPUT-output,11-11,12-12,13-13,14-14,15-15,16-16,17-
17,18-18,19-19,20-20,21-21,22-22,23-23,24-24,25-
25,26-26,27-27,28-28,29-29,30-30,31-31,32-32,33-
33,34-34,35-35,36-36,37-37,38-38,39-39,40-40,10-10,1-
1,2-2,3-3,4-4,5-5,6-6,7-7,8-8,9-9
INPUT-input,TOP-2,BOTTOM-1,MANUAL-0
SIDES-duplex,ONE-off,TWO-on,TUMBLE-tumble,1-off,2-
on,LETTERHEAD-letterhead
PAGE LIMIT-pagerange
ORIENTATION-orientation,PORTRAIT-Portrait,LANDSCAPE-
Landscape
PAGE ORIENTATION-pageorientation,PORTRAIT-
Portrait,LANDSCAPE-Landscape
SHEET COUNT-numcopies
SHEET SIZE-pagesize,LETTER-Letter,LEGALS-
LegalSmall,LEGAL-Legal,QUARTO-Quarto,COMMERCIAL-
Commercial,A4-A4,FOOLSCAP-foolscap,FOLIO-
FolioRCOLLATE-collate,OFF-off,ON-on