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From: rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: printing in direct mode?
Keywords: help
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.201004.3965@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 91 20:10:04 GMT
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ewm@cbnews.att.com (edward.w.mcfarland) writes:
>     For printing I am using the method that is mentioned in the C64
>owners manual, ie.  OPEN4,4,4 <return>
>                    CMD4:<command>  <return>
>                    CLOSE4,4,4  <return>

You can actually slightly improve on this.  First of all, you don't need
to have the full "4,4,4" in the close statement; just CLOSE4 is fine.  Also,
I believe you can avoid the problem with one more return being printed
by using this construction:

OPEN4,4,4 <return>
CMD4:<command> <return>
PRINT#4:CLOSE4 <return>

Actually, since you've given the CMD4, you could probably get away with
"PRINT:CLOSE4".

-Rob Knop
rknop@tybalt.caltech.edu