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From: randy@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaBASIC problems
Message-ID: <185@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-May-86 08:51:39 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  5 08:51:39 1986
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <2285@elecvax.eecs.unsw.oz> 8547289@elecvax.eecs.unsw.oz (Steven Sweeting) writes:
>I had a printer cable made up to CBM's (aust) specifications. Everything works,
>Polyscope, Notepad  routing to PRT: etc except  LLIST.  LPRINT works fine.
>Characters are missed in a random way, about 1 every 5 on my printer

	If your program contains printer specific outputs, you cannot 
	use LLIST. All output is routined through PRT:, your printer
	codes are all translated according to the selected driver. Instead,
	open the printer as a file (the Open command) and direct output 
	to this 'file'.
	
>As well is there anyway I can type to the printer in a RAW mode. 

	There are two methods. First, get into CLI by opening the SYSTEM
	drawer and clicking on the CLI icon. (If no icon is present, 
	activate Preferences and enable CLI, now return to Workbench,
	close and reopen the SYSTEM drawer.) The two methods of
	type to the printer are:
		copy * to prt: (or par:).
	Now, just type to your hearts content. To break out, type ^C
	(thats Control-C). 

	To take advantage of the Amiga multi-tasking OS, first type
	NEWCLI, this will open a second CLI window. Use this for
	typing to the printer. Your original CLI is still available
	for other things. To get an idea of supported commands, type:
		dir df0:c
	this will list the contents of the DOS command directory. You
	can get a template for inputs to most DOS commands by following
	the command with a '?', e.g.:	dir ?.

>
>An empty window crashes the system, fair enough that's illegal(:-)) but

	Empty windows should be okay -- its an empty menu-strip thats
	not allowed.

>
>When in psuedo-edit mode in a LIST window, if I select the OUTPUT window 
>with the mouse, then start typing, the first character goes to the LIST
>window before the cursor swithes over to the OUTPUT one. Is it supposed
>to do this?
>
	When using the LIST window, everything is slow. I suspect
	that a few characters make it into the input buffer before
	the OS redirects output to the OUTPUT window. If this always
	happens, regardless of how much time you allow for things to
	settle, than you have probably uncovered a bug.

-- 
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