I got the distinct impression from some of the European folk that they felt
slighted by our not sending calendars to Europe. Rather than have anyone feel
left out, I took the time this afternoon -- prompted greatly by the
suggestions of Rene Woc and Lars Appel -- and reformated the wall-sized Year
2000 calendar into 12 A4-sized pieces of paper, suitable for printing
directly from your HP3000. (I figured that virtually no one is likely to have
one of the large-format color printers connected to their HP3000).
The file that I created is a QueryCalc forms overlay file, printed in
PostScript to disc, in full color ( or colour, if you want an extra h'ue in
it). I also wrote a small compiled HP3000 BASIC program, SENDPS, to transfer
the calendar file to any printer connected to your HP3000.
The calendar is meant to print only on A4 paper. It is in color, but the code
will autoconvert to black and white when using any PostScript Level 2 or 3
B&W printer (essentially all HP PostScript-capable LaserJet printers). If you
do print the calendar in color, and you have the option, set your printer's
color calibration to SWOP (standard web offset printing). However, if you
don't have that option, it isn't that important; it'll be close enough.
I've loaded the calendar and the SENDPS files on our demonstration 918DX so
that you may directly FTP them to your HP3000s. Once again, there are no
firewalls or passwords in the QCTerm demonstration account, so you can purge
or modify anything, although of course it's best that you don't. Should you
accidentally modify anything, it isn't a catastrophe. We have backups. Just
let me know and I'll fix it.
I've enclosed the necessary steps below for you to FTP and modify the
calendar text so that you may print your own personalized calendars below. In
this example, I've FTPed directly from one HP3000 (ours) to another (yours).
If you're going to first FTP the material to a PC or a Mac as an
intermediary, before you put these files on your HP3000, I'll let you figure
out how to do that, however the process will be very similar.
Step 1: From an internet-connected HP3000, type the following at each of the
prompts. Be sure to notice the change to binary about halfway down.
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:ftp 209.181.113.217
File Transfer Protocol [A0009001] (C) Hewlett-Packard Co. 1990
220 HP ARPA FTP Server [A0008D26] (C) Hewlett-Packard Co. 1990
Connected to 209.181.113.217. (FTPINFO 40)
Name(manager): demo.qcterm,calendar
230 User logged on
Remote system type is MPE/iX.
200 TIMEOUT command ok.
ftp> get eurcalen
200 PORT command ok.
150 File: eurcalen opened; data connection will be opened
226 Transfer complete.
685440 bytes received in 151.63 seconds (4.41 Kbytes/sec)
ftp> bin
200 Type set to I.
ftp> get sendps
200 PORT command ok.
150 File: sendps opened; data connection will be opened
226 Transfer complete.
3584 bytes received in 1.10 seconds (3.18 Kbytes/sec)
ftp> exit
221 Server is closing command connection
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Step 2: Once you have the code at your site, you should be able to create the
following LISTF
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:listf @.calendar.qcterm,2
ACCOUNT= QCTERM GROUP= CALENDAR
FILENAME CODE ------------LOGICAL RECORD----------- ----SPACE----
SIZE TYP EOF LIMIT R/B SECTORS #X MX
EURCALEN 140B FA 4896 4896 9 2688 11 16
SENDPS PROG 128W FB 14 14 1 16 1 1
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Step 3: To personalize the calendar, text in the EURCALEN file into your
favorite editor and replace the phrase "Your Name" with your name. You should
find 12 instances. Be sure to save the modified file unnumbered. If you
don't, PostScript will object (actually, more likely, it won't do anything at
all).
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:editor
HP32201A.09.00 EDIT/3000 THU, DEC 16, 1999, 8:02 PM
(C) HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. 1993
/t eurcalen
FILE UNNUMBERED
/c "Your Name" to "Lars Appel" in all
158 (Lars Appel) show
565 (Lars Appel) show
968 (Lars Appel) show
1375 (Lars Appel) show
1780 (Lars Appel) show
2187 (Lars Appel) show
2592 (Lars Appel) show
2999 (Lars Appel) show
3406 (Lars Appel) show
3811 (Lars Appel) show
4218 (Lars Appel) show
4623 (Lars Appel) show
/k
EURCALEN,UNN
EURCALEN ALREADY EXISTS - RESPOND YES TO PURGE OLD AND KEEP NEW
PURGE OLD?y
/e
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Step 4: The final step is merely to print the file to the LDEV number of your
color or B&W printer, loaded with A4 paper.
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:sendps
File name to be printed: eurcalen
LDEV of PS printer: 300
:
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If things went well, you're now fully Y2K-compliant and well set for the
first year of a new millennium.
Wirt Atmar
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