PCL UTILITIES This distribution contains a collection of functions and subroutines to assist in printing to a laser printer from an application. No need to imbed or lookup escape sequences to draw lines, shade, position text, etc... Just open a file and output to it with the encoded data returned from these routines. These routines have been somewhat thrown together...not necessarily using the best programming techniques or documentation. I had been looking for something like this for some time, and hadn't run across it...therefore I ended up doing it myself. Many of the routines have been added one by one as I have needed to do something. Not much thought was put into it...but it does come in handy quite frequently. I have not provided a step by step direction on how to use this stuff, but with the examples, it shouldn't be too difficult. I also have not tried calling these routines using other languages other than BASIC (e.g. VAX C)...but they should work if called properly. You may print a hardcopy of the documentation using the following command: $ PRINT/NOFEED/PASSALL/QUEUE=Laser_Printer_Queue MANUAL.PCL This command will produce the necessary documentation on a PCL5 compatible laser printer using standard 8.5 x 11" paper. You may want to print out the example files included with this distribution set (note: they also have the .PCL filename extension.) Object code is included for the examples so that you may re-link them if you wish. Good luck, Marty Lucas