Using your PC and printer as a typewriter

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From: Peter P. Donohue
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 19:02

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   Lately, I have had the need to type forms and was wondering if there
is a way to use my computer to do this.  I have an XT clone with an
Epson LQ1000 hooked up to it.  I normally use PC-Write as my editor, and
the newest version does incorporate a typewriter mode, but it is not all
that helpful for filling out forms where the answers must fall within a
certain box.  Tabbing and spacing are numbers that you enter in
PC-Write; the program doesn't move the print head to the position until
you actually start printing.
   Does anyone know of a good shareware or public domain program that I
can get through anonymous ftp or from a software house that will help me
with this problem?  Thanks.

						Pete 
-- 
Peter P. Donohue 
ppd491@albny1vx.bitnet               .  "Education is a journey,
ppd491@leah.albany.edu               .    not a destination..."

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From: ppd491@leah.Albany.Edu (Peter P. Donohue)
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Subject: Using your PC and printer as a typewriter
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Date: 1 Feb 90 19:02:44 GMT
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