That was a program that would print your floppy directory on a sheet of standard 8-1/2x11 printer paper, with a series of dotted lines and instructions on how to fold along them to make a floppy disk envelope, with the directory listing right on the front face where it was clearly accessible. The font was painfully small, but pretty legible, and it cut down on the size of program dumps and documentation prints. The two most popular were quadprint, a program that would print a specified text file 4 up on an Epson printer, provided it supported elite compressed superscript printing. I got a payment for one of my shareware programs from as far away as Australia. When Borland came out with Turbo Assembler, I snatched it up, making mad scientist sounds. My first few shareware products back in the 80's were written in Z80 Assembler, though I did have a particular love for Turbo Pascal.
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