README file for Big Print
Friday, August 28, 2015
Author           Ed Thelen
Modifications    Stan Paddock

BigPrint is a demonstration program run on the IBM 1401
The input is a series of cards:

The first card is a date card.
Whatever is in the first 25 columns of this card is considered the date.
January 23, 1987 is as good as 1/23/87

The second card and all following cards are name cards.
The first name can be up to 11 characters.
If the first name is longer than 11 characters, it will be truncated to 11 characters.

The second name can be up to 10 characters.
The second name starts after the space between the first name and the start of the second name.
The next 10 characters will be displayed as the second name.
There can be three names like Juan el Capitan
The program will print Juan on the first line and El Capitan on the second line.
Except that there must be a space between names, the rest of the spacing does not matter.
All extra spaces will be ignored.

There is no limit to the number of name cards that can be used.

The last card is the End Of File card.
If the three characters EOF are found in Columns 1-5 the program will terminate with a halt.

If you want to run it again with a new set of cards, set sense switch G on, clear the card reader, place the second date, name and EOF cards in the reader and press start.

If you don't want to run it again, leave sense switch  G off and when you press start, it will look for and read in the next program.

A new feature has been added to BigPrint rev 16.2.
It is called BANNER.
If the first 6 characters of the date card are BANNER, BigPrint shifts into BANNER mode.

Each following card will print a line on the printer.
CC 1:If it is a D, the Double print will be used and the characters from column 3-13 will be printed. (11 characters)
    :If it is a S, the Single print will be used and the characters from column 3-24 will be printed.(22 characters)

CC 2:If CC 2 is a D, the line will be double printed as in Dark.
    :If CC 2 is a L, the line will be single printed as in light. 

The last card is the End Of File card.
If the three characters EOF are found in Columns 1-5 the program will terminate with a halt.

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