CHAPTER 1

                      THE WALMYR BOOK MAKER


  The  WALMYR  Book  Maker  is  a  powerful  utility program that 
enables you to print small, large,  very  large,  or  truly  huge
manuals,  monographs,  or  books  by  collecting and printing any
number of ASCII text files as a single integrated volume.  If you 
have ever had a number of different ASCII  text  files  that  you
wanted  to  gather  together  and then merge into a single nicely 
formatted and consistently paginated document,  then  the  WALMYR
Book Maker may be the solution to your problems. 

  Book Maker is truly powerful.  The size of volume that you  may
produce  is  limited  only  by  the  physical  capacity  of  your
equipment and you can even overcome that limitation!  Thus, there 
is no theoretical limit to the size of a single printed  book  or
volume that you can produce with the program.

  If  you  have  a hard disk system, you can easily store a large 
number of ASCII text files on your hard disk and then  print  all
of  them  as  a  single job.  If you prefer, you can simply store
truly huge jobs on separate floppy diskettes and print the entire
job in separate runs.  And, you can have as many diskettes as you
like!  There is no limit! 



                  USING THE BOOK MAKER PROGRAM

  In  order  to use the Book Maker program, you need only put the 
program diskette in Drive A, log onto that drive and  then  issue
the  command,  BM <cr>.  When you do that, the program configures 
itself automatically to your computer  system.   If  you  have  a
color/graphics  board  in  your  computer,  it  will  ask  you to
indicate whether you are using a color monitor. 

  After your computer whirrs  and  chugs  a  little,  the  Master
Screen  for  the program will appear and you will see the program 
menu.  At that point you may choose Option  A  to  examine  these
instructions, or you may choose Option B to print a document.

  If  you  choose  Option B, the program will ask you to indicate 
whether your printer is configured for Pica  or  Elite  printing,
and  it  will  then ask you to indicate the DRIVE\PATH where your 
files are stored.  Once you have provided that  information,  the
program will ask you to indicate whether you are using continuous
or single-feed paper.  It will then begin printing your document,
and that's all there is to actually running the program.

  However,  you  do  have  to  perform  some  setup chores before 
actually printing a  document.   The  remainder  of  this  User's
Manual explains each one of them and describes how you can manage
your text files to get the most out of the program.

  Actually,  the  manual is much larger that it needs to be (it's 
not very large either), but we extended it a little to use it  as
an  example.   The  program  prints its own manual and the User's
Manual is treated as an example for using the program.