I should like to echo the comments made by W. Spens (issue 103) in regard to the substantial improvements made in the update of QL Quill.
The bug noted in his letter seems rather stranger than he suggests. My experience shows that the last line of a file fails to print only when the file is newly loaded from Microdrive. At this stage, of course, the cursor is positioned at the start of the text. If the cursor is now moved to the end of the text the document will print correctly.
As far as my limited experiments have shown, if this has been done once, the document continues to print correctly regardless of the position of the cursor during the later printings.
Fortunately, the problem is easily overcome. It is not necessary manually to flush the printer buffer, but simply to adjust the printer driver (using "Install_bas") to send a carriage return character (ASCII 13) as the postamble code. Quill sends this to the printer at the end of each document, and it automatically flushes the buffer.
6th April 1985
