Hi James,

After some months of silence, I have put together a new
issue of my NECPINW.CPI codepage switching file
for NEC Pinwriters under DR DOS 6.0+ (and possibly
FreeDOS in the future). Please find attached for upload
the distribution archive for release 2.08.

It now has been thoroughly tested with a P5300 (P7plus)
with color and CSF option and a color P9300 (P90) with
dual bin CSF, but I=B4m still searching for people to test it
under oldest models such as P2/P3, CP2/CP3,P5, P5XL,
P6/P7, P9XL as well as with more recent or current printer
models such as P2X or P72X.=20

Also, there are still a number of open questions, see the
"To Do list" in the "Implementation details" chapter
in NECPINW.ASM, and search for "???" in FILESPEC.TXT,
a new file which contains detailed background info on the
supported printer models, their configuration, and the
assumptions/decisions I had to make when developing
NECPINW.CPI.
For testing and future enhancement of NECPINW.CPI,
I am searching for someone who has a printer which has
one of these external font/charsets installed in the internal
EPROM option socket.

Other improvements:

- Support for Code Page 858 (Multilingual with EURO SIGN),
  the new Code Page 850 successor, as download character set.

- Added more EPROM Code Page selection IDs and a few
  other Code Pages such as 1011 bringing the total count of
  supported character sets to 90.

- Completely restructured the documentation, now corrected
  to include the info regarding all printer models for which
  the manuals were available for download as .PDF files.

- Updated EUROFONT.INC and introduced EUROSIGN.TXT
  files to serve as a reference for EURO SIGN representations
  in various character sets and as printer and display bitmaps.

More is to come...

Greetings,

 Matthias

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