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# A File Printer

This program grew out of a want for neatly paged, dated, and identified file printouts. The original version handled only SuperBasic program files. However, when the basic (no pun intended!) similarities between SBasic and text (ASCII) files became obvious, the program was expanded to include text output. The primary difference is that an arbitrary range of line numbers may be specified for a SBasic file, allowing partial output of that file.