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From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: imagewriter // (help?)
Message-ID: <3175@reed.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Apr-86 21:30:32 EST
Article-I.D.: reed.3175
Posted: Tue Apr 22 21:30:32 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Apr-86 01:24:35 EST
Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
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Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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Well, here's the scoop...

I got a //c and imagewriter // (actually _I_ have a //e and
Prowriter...) and I'm in the process of writting some more fantastic PD
software (yay!) for all of yoose guys...

BUT!

Yes, needless to say, I'm having a problem...

It seems that after I print out about 96 graphics bytes, I get a return
and line feed.  Well, there goes the neigherhood!  I tried to set the
line length to 255 by "^I255N" but then I get the same thing.  I tried it
with the printer in debug mode (hex dump) and I got two things.  If I
just powered up, I get 8D 8A about once every 96 characters.  With ^I255N
I get 8D 8A and 80 or so character I get 0D 0A.  This makes me wonder if
perhaps the printer itself is sending these nasty CR and LF's....

to illustrate my point, run this...

1 ONERR GOTO 100
10 PRINT CHR$(4);"PR#1"
20 DATA 1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,5,5,5,5,6,6,6,6
30 READ K : PRINT CHR$(27);"K";K; : PRINT CHR$(27);"G0009"; : REM 0=zero
40 FOR X = 1 TO 9 : CALL 768 : NEXT : REM ML PROGRAM FOLLOWING
50 GOTO 30
100 PRINT: PRINT: PRINT: PRINT CHR$(4);"PR#0"


300: A9 7F     LDA #$7F
302: 20 ED FD  JSR $FDED
305: 60        RTS

What this should do is print nine bytes of one color, then move on to
the next.  It's pretty simple.  What really icks me off is that this
sample program ran just fine at 2 am this morning, but not now...now I
get those damn line feeds.

wel, I've rambled on long enough.  If you're just dying to help me, like
ou can't sleep at night because you know the answer, or even might know
the answer, then by all means, send me mail.  help!

sean kamath

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