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January 1988

The independent Dragon magazine

Contents

Letters

Adventure Trail

Why high prices? r a n g e right routine

clubs in Scandinavia c o n v e r s i o n tech-

niques c o mp e t it io n is useful.

This month Pete Gerrard ties up some Fishy

Business, pronounces on Madness and the

Minotaur and goes halves on Syzygy.

Editorial

Write: ADVENTURE 2 2

It's getti ng dangerous in the dungeon. Even

warriors have to move around in gangs,

says Pete Gerrard.

News

Harris's new utility t h r e e from Dragonﬁ re

improved Supasmooth power su p p ly

September 'stets offer n e w Hargrave

adventure.

Down in the Dumps 2 4

A lo w

Winners and losers 2 5

re s

Calculating the answer to the August com-

d u

petition, and how to test your accuracy.

m p

Competition

Gordon Lee said to the numbers, go forth,

multiply and increase. And lo! they were too

tbig for the computer. Win Larkspur Waldorf

is Trapped from John Penn Software.

The Answer

Gordon L e e 's so lu tio n t o t h e Octo b e r

competition.

Dragon Answers 2 8

No RAM pack for Dragons M a p l i n inter-

face s h a r p and ﬂat notes u s i n g binary

coded decimal.

STOP PRESS • STOP PRESS • STOP PRESS•

Pulser's three-adventure compilation i s

E8.99 a n d n o t E3,99 a s advertised la st

month. *Taped listings of Music Extension

will be available from John Penn.

Managing Editor

PETER KANE

Dragon soft

The K in g s Quest and The Quest o r the

Meaning of Life from Simon Hargrave.

Expert's Arcade Arena 7

Back from his travels, and still asking dif-

ﬁcult questions...

Introducing modems

A beginners' g u id e t o modulator/demo-

dulators and what they talk about on the

telephone, by Ken G. Smith.

Crossword

Win a tape, no tiebreakers.

Pamcodes

Pam D'Arcy reaches labels and branches in

her series on machine code for beginners.

Music Extender

David Makin and eight pages of upgrades

for Music Maker See Stop Press,

LOOKING down the tunnel of another

year, I am going to quietly forget that

people keep asking 'what's going to

happen to Dragon User'?' and remem-

ber that people have been asking that

question sin ce 1 9 8 4 an d , l i k e t h e

Christmas turkey, w e keep right o n

reappearing.

I shall start worrying about that Great

Fricassee Pan in the Sky after Christ-

mas. Right now I am staying put under

the mistletoe. Happy Christmas!

Talking of mistletoe, I had the chance

to meet old and new acquaintances at

the 6809 Show on Saturday and talk

things over. Many people agreed that

there are opportunities for marketing

Dragon software — for instance, pro-

ducing legitimate, inexpensive conver-

sions of American Tandy programs —

which are not taken up because there is

a better living to be made from other

machines. O n t h e contrary, dealers

who have good contact with Dragon

owners are gradually hiving off their

less proﬁ table g am es t o specialist

dealers who are more committed but

are inevitably smaller.

More information on reliable, good

value sources of software and hard-

ware from overseas would be welcom-

ed by everyone now.

How to s ubmit articles

The quality of t he material we c an publish in

Dragon User each month will, to a very great ex-

tent depend on the quality of the discoveries that

you can mak e wit h your Dragon. The Dragon

computer was launched on to the market with a

powerful version of Basic, but wit h very poor

documentation.

Articles which are submitted lo Dragon User

for publication should not be more than 3000

words long. All submissions should be typed_

Please leave wide margins and a double space

between each line. Programs should, whenever

possible, b e c omput er printed on plain whit e

paper and be accompanied by a tape of the

program.

We cannot guarantee to return every submit-

ted article or program, so please keep a copy. If

you wantto have your program returned you must

include a stamped addressed envelope.

Telephone number

(All departments)

437-4343

Publishing Director

JENNY IRELAND

Subscriptions

UK £14 for 12 issues

Overseas (surface) E20 for 12 issues

ISSN 0265-177. Telex: 296275

Dragon User. 12/13 Little Newport Street,

London WC2H 7PP

US address: c/o Business Press International,

205 East 42nd St, New York, NY 10017

Published by Scot Press Ltd.

Scot Press 1987

Typesetting and Production by Artext Limited.

London NW1_

Printed by Headley Brothers Ltd. Ashford, Kent

Registered at the Post Ofﬁce as a newspaper.

Dragon and its logo are trademarks of

Eurohard Ltd.

Editor

HELEN ARMSTRONG

Production Editor

DRAGON EDITORIAL

Administration

CAROL FRITH

Advertisement Manager

DRAGON EDITORIAL

Marketing Manager

HELEN PERRY

Letters

Writers

wanted

I am working on a new monthly

magazine forthe not-so-serious

user called Dragon Logic, which

will co me o u t in January o r

February. I cannot b e mo re

sp e ciﬁ c a b o u t t h e d a t e s

because the magazine is run by

myself only and therefore it will

take longer to put together.

Dragon L o g ic will depend

heavily on the readers. A vast

percentage will be made up of

things sent in by readers and

suppliers. Th e re fo re I wo u ld

urge peopleto send their letters,

top ten, software fo r review,

news. problems, etc. to me.

If readers want to know more

about the mag then pleasewrite

to me.

Donald Morrison

72 Diriebught Road

invemeww

IV2 3QT

Scotland

This is your chance to air your views—send yourtips, compliments and complaints to Letters

Page, Dragon User, 12-13 Little Newport Street, London WC2H 7PP.

Every month we will be shelling out a game or two,

courtesy of Microdeal, to the readerts

who send the most interesting or

entertaining letters. So send

us your hints and your opinions,

send us your hi-scores and

suggestions. Send us your

best Dragon stories. What

d'you think we are,

mind readers?!

Now we

do the

homework!

I would like to compliment you

on an excellent magazine and I

think O c t o b e r' s issu e w a s

probably the best for ages. Not

only packed with interesting in-

formation, it a lso helped me

co mp le te a m a t h s G C S E

problem!

The problem was to ﬁnd the

amountof triangles inadiagram

and work out a solution. I was

given t h e p ro b le m o n 2 4 t h

September, my Dad and I were

stumped until loand behold the

Dragon User arrived the ve ry

next day! Looking at the com-

petition I saw a little table ac-

companied byalargediagram.

When I read the passage next to

it there was my problem and

equation neatlydocumented for

me.

Keep it u p Gordon, mu c h

appreciated.

Daniel Swan

118 Upland Drive

Derriford

Plymouth

PL6 6BG

Why oh Why

The users cry

I would like to protest about the high prices of Dragon 64s and

disc drives. A new disc drive costs £200 + wit h DOS cartidge

and a new Dragon 64 costs E195. Why? Surelycompanies would sell

more products if the prices were lowered. No wonder there is

a booming trade in second-hand 64s and disc drives.

Remember one of the other computers — the Atari 800XL. You

know the one where programs on cassette take a long time to

load. Like International Karate in 20 minutes. A few years ago its

popularity was dying and the makers decided to drop the price

and n o w it has recovered and is selling well. Shouldn't th is

approach be adopted for the Dragon to get it back in the shops

so that the user base increases to what it was back in 1984 or even

treble that?

I have noticed some games for the Dragon and CoCo from

America that are quite good. One is Brew Master by Tom Mix and

others are Zaxxon and Pooyar by Datasoft. Why hasn't someone

licensedthem tosell inthe UKastheyarebrilliant games uptoShock

Trooper standard.

I would like to congratulate Ouickbeam for Superkidand Fire Force

(yes. I do like it) and Microdeal for Airball and also the other com-

panies for still supporting the Dragon.

My ﬁnal point is regarding Dragon shows. Why hasn't anyone

(except Microdeal) put a Dragon show on in Birmingham? It does

exist you know. I think it's ideal — central, easy for most people

to get to and probably cheaper than London. Is itacase of anything

north o f Watford Ga p (and mo re recently South o f Osset) is

ignored?

Mr. K. Hunt

11 Demamham Close

West Bromwich

West Midlands

B70 6AJ

Why no '64

games?

I HAVE recently purchased a

new Dragon 64 to add to my old

not

3 seen any new Arcade and

Adventuregames advertised in

Dragon Userforthe -

full memoryncapabilities. Soft-

64 u s i

ware houses like Microvision

i t s

have produced programs for

use w i t h F l e x O p e ra t i n g

System, disc drive and Dragon

m but have not produced any

s for the Dragon 64 use. The

just

same is with companies who

produce OS-9 software, which

needs the '64 to work.

i If brilliant games like Juxta-

position ca n be made for the

Dragon 3 2 ju st th in k o f th e

possibilities for the '64,

I hope Software houses read

this letter and take note of the

points I have made as I do not

think I am the only one with this

opinion.

Richard Tyler

Tunbridge Wells

Kent

TN2 5SX

2 Dragon User January 1988

Bulletin

board

bulletin

WHILE I was working an idea

struck me. Afterawhile I regain-

ed consciousness and itwas still

theresolthought I would tell you

about it. How about abi-monthly

page devoted to bulletin boards.

Readers could be encouraged

to send in details of the boards

that they use and a list of active

boards published. Also special

features o f particular boards

could b e highlighted. I don't

know how popular it would be

but it may be worth a try.

KG. Smith

33 Clack Road

Dea;

Kent

CT14 9ND

IF anyone wants to send u s

details o n th e i r b u l l e ti n

boards, we'll print them. We

Westronglysuspectthattheanswertomost of yourquestions

is that Atari managed to develop into a very strong and

successful company before it ran into rocky waters, whereas

Dragon Data did not enjoy halls° much success beforetrouble

hit them. It helps to have friends at the bank if you want to re-

launch your products.

In replyto yourotherquestion, what? You mean there really

is something between Watford Gap and Osset? I thought it was

all just Birmingham. Seriously, though— why doesn't someone

put on a show at the NEC? It's central, purpose built, plenty of

room to park b u t have you tastedtheir Cornish pasties?.

havesomething on BBs in the

pipeline, in fact. As soon as I

can ﬁnd a bent coathanger, I'll

try and ﬁsh it out.

Trans-

atlantic

Telegraph

I should liketo reacttoaletter by

Mr. Randy Longshore in theJuly

issue of Dragon User. He com-

ments o n m y C o Co/Dragon

Basic converter published in the

April issue.

Of course, Mr. Longshore is

correct when he states that a

Dragon ca n n o t re a d C o Co

discs, at leastnotdirectly. I take

great interest in his procedure to

modify CoCodiscsto be loaded

by a Dra g o n a n d will mo st

deﬁnitely contact h im in th is

respect, e sp e cia lly s in c e

myself havejust begun workon

a program that would copy all

Meson aCoCo disc to a Dragon

disc.However.thougha Dragon

user indeed needs to ﬁ nd a

CoCodiscuserwhoisprepared

to co p y ﬁ le s f ro m d isc onto

cassette, Mr. Longshore's opi-

nion that my program would

th'eh b e mo re o r less super-

ﬂuous oversimpliﬁes matters.

First o f all I should like to

emphasize that not all Dragon

users own disc drives, and that

theycan use my program, even

though it tries to deal with disc

Basic tokens as well. Moreover,

not a ll B a sic software n e e d

necessarily come from a CoCo

user. Wit h m y p ro g ra m t h e

Dragon user also gets accessto

commercial software written in

Basic, eg the compilation tapes

published by. among others, the

American Rainbow magazine.

This gives the Dragon user the

ability to tap into the immense

software pool available for the

CoCo, albeit in a very limited

sense.

Far more important, though,

is the fact that it just will not

alwaysdotoask aCoCo user to

save B a sic ﬁ le s in ASCII. I t

occurs q u ite frequently th a t

Basic p ro g ra ms wh ich h a ve

been 'p a cke d b y re mo vin g

superﬂuous sp a ce s a n d b y

combining Basic lines get cor-

rupted bysaving them in ASCII:

tokens are replaced with longer

ASCII text, and long lines may

overﬂow with th e re su lt that

ends of lines may bechopped off

while saving to cassette. This

mayeven happen with 'normal'

programswhichhaveverylong

lines. This is not conjecture but

sad experience and was one of

theminorreasonsfor writing my

converter in the ﬁrst place.

I appreciate Mr. Longshore's

interest, andfeel that readersof

Dragon Usercan only proﬁt from

this kind of exchangeoﬁnforma-

tion i n t h e o n ly large-scale

medium available t o Dragon

users. I am ofcourse interested

in further comment or sugges-

tions as regards my program.

Rudy Duyok

Abdijbekestraat 8-C2

B-8200 Brugge 2 (St. Andries)

Belgium

Range

right

MAY I take this opportunity to

give a poke tocontrolthe cursor

link rate on a '64? Location &H

FABA controls the rate, poke it

with Ito give a cursor that does

not vanish when you hold down

the sp a ce b a r, a n d P O K E

283,56 to updatethechecksurn.

POKE & H FA B A , O : P O K E

283.55 to turn off the cursor.

I a lso se n d a rig h t ju stify

routine which will take a line to

A$ and justify it to a line length

contained in variable LN, retur-

ning thejustiﬁed line in BS. Has

anyone got a better method.

100 RIGHT JUSTIFY

110 AS = -

example"

This

120AS= AS+

i s

130 LN 3t 2 : F = 0:S = 0:N =

j u s

a P =n = LEN(A$);B$ =

140 GOSUB 280:GOSUB

290:IF = 0 THEN 170

150S S - P + F: P =F

160 IF P) = L THE N

N = N + 1:GOTO 140

170 IF N = 1 THEN 310

180 P =1:GOSUB 280

190SP = LN-S-P-N + 2

200 BS -B S + STRINGS

(P-1,32)

210 DS = INT(SP/(N-1)):

MS = SP-(N-1)• DS:

ASS = 1

220 GOSUB 290:IF = 0

THEN 300

230 B$ B $ + M1D$

AS,P,F-P): P = F

240 GOSUB 280

250 IF SP = 0 THEN

B$ - BS + " ":GOTO 220

260 IF PASS) = MS THEN

B$ = 13S—STRINGS(DS +

2,32):SP = SP-DS-1:

PASS = PASS + 1:GOTO

220

270 B$ - BS+ STRONG$

(DS + 1,32):SP - SP-DS:

GOTO 280

280IF MIDS(AS,P.1) =

THEN P P + 1 :G0 T0 280

ELSE RETURN

290 -1 NS TR(P , A$ , " "):

RETURN

300 B$ = LEFT$(B$,LN)

310 A$ = BS:PRINT AS

Screens

SINCE light pensfortheDragon

are common among us, !would

like it that someone out there

will writ e software t o cre a te

graphics o n f o u r P MO DE 4

screens linked together. You

willbeabletoseeonlytheusual

grid size, but can move around

the screen that will be a grid of

256 + 256/192 + 192.Thereisa

betterway but morecomplex, by

moving around with a kind of

spying glass that will double

every dot's height and width.

Butyouwill beableto look atthe

whole screen. Got it?

I'm writing for you! oh brave

ones. Please send what you

have done to DU

Otir Rahar

Herev Laet 34

Emek Heter 38860

Israel

owning f ri e n d s t e a s e m e

because of the quality of the

Dragon games. Now when they

have seen Shaolin Master Pius,

Ice Castles a n d others, th e y

regularlycometometoplaymy

Dragon games. I even have an

Amiga-owning friend who likes

my games.

And a last thanks to Dragon

User. I read every page of it

every month.

Continue like this!

Tor-Helge Skei

Ustaasen 87

7082 Kattem

Norway

club

WE would like to tell you and

yourreadersthatthereisacom-

outer club for the Dragon and

Tandy CoCo in Norway.

We have a monthly news-

letter. We have members from

all thecountries in Scandinavia.

We'd like to get in touch with

other computer clubs all over

the world.

If you wa n t to kn o w mo re

about our computer club and

what wearedoing, please write

to use for more information.

Tromso Dragon/Tandy Club

Sandneshamn

N-9105 Eldkjosen

Norway

Where is

Tandy?

COULD you please include the

address o f t h e Ta n d y Use r

Group in yo u r n e xt issue o f

Dragon User. I have tried every

address I could ﬁnd to try and

track them down without luck,

and so I wrote to you.

Craig Dillon

HAVING made enquiries, i t

seems that the Tandy Users

Club no longer exists in this

country. I am told that one of

the Northe rn Dragon Clubs

inhe rite d s o m e o f t h e

membershipoftheoldgroup,

but I am notcertain which one

orwhatthei r address isat pre-

sent. I will let you know as

soon as I can ﬁnd out. Also,

the Na tiona l Dr a gon Us e r

Group deals with Tandy as

well asDragon interests. They

are a t 6 Na v a r i no Ro a d ,

Worthing, Sussex.

Tyne and

here

JUST to prove that the Dragon

has still got a healthy following,

could you please give a plug to

my localclubthe NORTH EAST

DRAGON USER'S CLUB. We

have 14 me mb e rs and meet

every Wednesdayat 8.00 pm in

the Etterick lounge of the Grin-

don M i l l , C h e s t e r R d . .

Sunderland. I f a n yo n e ca n

make it we would be pleased to

see them, or they can contact

me.

Chris Jobson

23 Walsingham

Biddick Village

Washington

Tyne and Wear

NE38 7HF

SUPPORT you local Dragon

club.

January 1988 Dragon User 3

Fjord calling

THANKS fo r ma n y excellent

magazines. I wish to thank all

software writerstpublishers for

all t h e su p b e rb g a me s/p ro -

grams that have arrived. One

year ago all my Commodore

News desk

HARRIS Micro Software's new

complete fro n t end a n d lin e

editor, called the KLIK Utility, is

now available.

The package features point

and click operation of the entire

system from the keyboard or a

mouse, with pull-down menus,

pointers, a dialogue box, control

buttons and h e lp messages,

selective directories, ﬁle icons,

repeating DOS commands and

a set up module for easy control

of t h e s c r e e n , w i n d o w s ,

BREAK, etc.

The word-processor like line

editor h a s tra ce a n d p a u se

facilities, and desktop facilities

It you have any new products for the Dragon — software or hardware —

ring the News Desk on 01-4374343

Harris front end W k s

include a disc based spooler,

memo pad, snapshot and KLIK

Basic, wh ic h a llo ws y o u t o

design your own windows, icons

and menus.

The re i s , h o we v e r, n o

snapsbat function, as featured

in one of our advertisements_

Bob Harris says that he will give

some thought to whether or not

he should include it when he

works Out what it is.

The package costs E14.95

from Harris Micro Software, 49

Alexandra Ro a d , Ho u n slo w,

Middx TW3 4HP. Bob Harris's

Basic 42 was one of the best

Dragon packages of 1986.

Harrry Whitehouse upgrades his

power supply for the same price

THE famous A l Supasmooth

Heavy Duty Power Supply has

gained a c o u p le o f e x t ra

features at no extra cost, thanks

to Harry Whitehouse.

The Al, which carries a two

year guarantee and lifetime ser-

vice warrantry, is suitable for the

Dragon 32 and 64, and recom-

mended f o r a l l Dra g o n p lu s

owners.

It nowfeatures a rapid red but-

ton on/off switch as standard.

This means that the Dragon's

own fault-prone switch can be

left permanently 'on', reducing

the risk of failure

A new design of D-connector

has also been introduced, with

a reliable cable clamping a r-

rangement instead o f a grub

screw.

The A l Su p a smo o th s t ill

costs E18.95 and ﬂ a t rate post

and packing. I t is ma n u fa c-

turered b y Peaksoft, a n d i s

available f ro m Ha rry Wh it e -

house, 4 8 Q u e e n S t re e t ,

Balderton, Newark, NG243NS,

tel. 0636 705230.

"Quite a fe w owners have

told u s t h a t t h e y a re p u r-

chasing an Al as a backup for

their original Dragon unit, but

we always suggest they use

the Al and put their old unit in

the cupbaord. After all, if an Al

ever f a ile d — a n d t o o u r

knowledge, that has never hap-

pened — the user will at least

have the security of knowing

that i t i s c o v e re d b y t h e

guarantee_ On the other hand.

if a Dragon Data unit fails, all you

can do is throw it in the dustbin,"

said Harry.

More from The Solver

SIMON Hargrave is pleased to

announce th e arriveal o f h is

latest adventure for the Dragon

32 and 64, the fourth in the Star-

crash series.

The Heirot Tyos lean unusual-

ly large, 200-location adventure

in real time, with many assorted

mobile characters and events,

some of them interactive. The

split-level parser will accept full

English sentences.

You play the Prince of Tyos,

places in s id e a myste rio u s

pyramid by a rival monarch. To

win peace fo r your kingdom,

and the kingship, you must suc-

ceed in escaping. But your rival

is devious and not to be trusted.

To ﬁnd the mysteriousAmulet of

Tyos is easy, but escaping alive

is more difﬁcult...

The game is randomised so

that it will p la y differently on

each occasion. Do you, asks

Simon Hargrave, dare to accept

the challenge?

This and all Simon's games

are available for E5 each (in-

cludes p&p) from Crawley Hill

Farm, Uley, Dursley, Glos. GL11

5BH.

69 Microcosm this month

68 MICROCOSM, the journal of

the68 MicroGroup has alsojust

turned up. Contents include An

Extrinsic Flex Disk Format Pro-

gram, a look at the Atari 1040ST,

disk-Type reporting, letters, 68

Micro Group Library, a guide to

the u se o f 6821 P I A control

review, and some news and per-

sonal syst e m re vie ws. T h e

group holds regular meetings in

the London and Birmingham

areas.

For information contract Keith

Barnes, 174 Glen Albuyn Road,

Wimbledon, L o n d o n S W1 9

6HG,

New editor for Dragon Update -

same old plea

THE N o v e m b e r i s s u e o f

Dragon Update, looking white

and shiny, h a s ju st dropped

out of the postman's bag and

onto my foot. Pity it's bundled

up with two cwt of other mail.

Why am I standing so close to

the postman? I'm not — I had

to carry it up the stairs myself.

Our postman' may be late, but

he's not stupid.

This is the ﬁrst issue by new,

Irish, e d ito rl Barry Caruth, and

Paul awards him eight out often

for e f f o rt , w h i c h i s f a i r l y

praiseful. Th is month's issue

features Pascal for Beginners

(part 4), Memory Management

on t h e L a rg e Dragon: E a sy

Machine Code part 14; Forth

part 2: a report on d isc con-

trollers (DOSs), some notes on

the Touchmaster Graphics pad,

a couple of games reviews, a

supportive a s s e s s me n t o f

Dragon Use r since the Great

Change (it's nice to meet some-

4 Dragon User January 1988

one who can live without a full

co lo u r c o v e r), a n d s o m e

thoughts from Paul Grade on

co p yrig h t a n d c i rc u l a t i n g

material. And yes, Paul, you're

right, we professionals do have

someone to make the coffee for

us. He's called Russell Hobbs,

and i f anyone wo u ld like t o

organised a whip-round, w e

could b u y h im a n e w lid fo r

Christmas.

Barry is, as usual, appealing

for more material. Somewhere

I have a box of fairlyold submis-

sions which just missed being

p u b lish e d a n d w h i c h t h e

owners did not ask to be return-

ed. wo n d e r idly if DU would be

interested in looking at some of

that

Contact NDUG at 6 Navarino

Road, Worthin g. Sussex, o r

send material to Barry Caruth,

132 Donaghadee Road, Ba n -

gor, Co. Down, N. Ireland BT20

4N H.

Image scanner from Epsom

FOR the wealthy and ambitious

in the desktop publishing world.

Epson have come Out with a

low-cost, e n try-le ve l ima g e -

scanner as an option on four of

the co mp a n y's printers, t h e

EX800/EX1000 a n d t h e

L02500/LQ2500+.

The bundled software with

the scanner is, su rp rise su r-

prise, compatible with IBM PC

compatible machines, and the

device costs under E200 and

can read areas of 8 x llin with

the EX1000 and LQ machines,

and 6 x 8in on the EX800,

September stats

for subscribers

Three more

packages from

Dragonf ire

DRAGON FIRE Services have

c o m e u p w it h thr ee n e w

r eleas es : a games pack and two

u t ilit ie s .

K i d s Pack 1 is two simple

g a m e s on one cassette: Dam

A t t a c k is a shooting game

' f o r the under 6-year-olds.'

of the old favourite that used to

waste so much chalk, is design-

ed to appeal to older players as

well as kids_ Over 1000 words in

the memory; E2 for two games.

Small Business Wo rd Pro -

Graphical Hangman, a version

AS many of you will recall, we N e w s : minor correction to Mr.

had problems with September Wa lk e r ' s article in July 1987;

1987edition ofDragon User We D r a g o n s o f t : M a g b a s e b y

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Disassembler for use with DSKDREAM

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PRINTER CONTROL*

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