How can students get a printed audit trail?
The simplest way seems to be to send the output to the screen, then use SHIFT/PRINTSCR to dump the screen to the printer. That way, you get a printout of INPUTs as well as of PRINTed data. When running under MS-Windows, however, this sends the screen to the Windows clipboard instead of to the printer. Another way when using Windows 95 or 98, goes like this: • Make sure you are running in a DOS box, not full screen • RUN the COMAL program and get a screenful of inputs and outputs • Use the “Mark” button at the top of the DOS box to highlight the text you need • Use the “Copy” button to copy the text to the Windows clipboard • Paste the text into Windows Notepad (this keeps the spacing the same) • Print the audit trail from Notepad. If you don’t have a button bar at the top of your UniCOMAL window, you can ask MS-Windows to display one by right-clicking the COMAL87.EXE file in your COMAL directory, then left-click “Properties”, then the “Screen” tab, then selecting “Display toolbar”. See
