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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Star printer driver wanted
Summary: It works if you talk to it properly
Keywords: ANSI escape sequences
Message-ID: <465@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 27 Jul 89 07:54:56 GMT
References: <588@prles2.UUCP>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Field Service Co, San Jose CA
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[I've seen other replies to this request without providing details]

In article <588@prles2.UUCP> hens@apolloway.prl.philips.nl (Patrick Hens (44014)) writes:
>But my problem is the usage of the printer escape codes: an example:
>when I use the command LPRINT CHR$(27);"4" in AmigaBasic my printer
>should be set up for italic characters as described in the 'Parallel
>Interface Cartridge For NL-10'-manual.

You are looking at the wrong set of escape sequences.  Forget about the ones
in the NL-10 manual, you need to use the ANSI X3.64 style commands.
(They're in Appendix-D of the Introduction to the Commodore Amiga 2000
manual.)  For example:

10 LPRINT CHR$(27);"[0mNormal"
20 LPRINT CHR$(27);"[3mItalic";CHR$(27);"[23m"
30 LPRINT CHR$(27);"[4mUnderline";CHR$(27);"[24m"
40 LPRINT CHR$(27);"[1mBold";CHR$(27);"[21m"

AmigaBASIC sends CHR$(27);"[3m" to the NL-10 printer driver, which translates
it to CHR$(27);"4" on its way to the printer.
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