Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 GARFIELD 20/11/84; site garfield.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!utai!garfield!john13 From: john13@garfield.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: problem with escape codes to the printer Message-ID: <1183@garfield.UUCP> Date: Mon, 9-Jun-86 11:46:04 EDT Article-I.D.: garfield.1183 Posted: Mon Jun 9 11:46:04 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 10-Jun-86 02:49:28 EDT Sender: dave@garfield.UUCP Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) Organization: Semi-Optimal Software Solutions (Inc.) Lines: 38 the cast: an amiga 1000 and a panasonic kx-p1080 printer. the victim: an amiga owner (not me, someone i know) who is *not* a computer science student/graduate. a guy who just wanted to print some escape sequences, until his luck ran out. the culprit: ??? sorry if this question has come up before, but i don't remember seeing it and it does seem like the sort of thing new owners should know about. this fellow (let's call him, oh, chris) has been unable to get escape chars or sequences out to his printer from amiga basic. using both lprint and print # he can get any character (eg 15, for compressed) *but* chr$(27) to be recognized. in fact, an esc sent out is not only ignored, but the character after it is also gobbled. when he came to me with his problem, and i verified its existence, i suggested printing sample escape sequences and text to a disk file, then using cli to print it, just to see whether or not something deep in the amiga was stripping the characters, or if amiga basic did not like esc's. the problem didn't go away, but it occurred to me that the esc's might not have been making it to the disk file. any ideas, fixesthe Basic's so far are batting 1000: Abasic's little demo program for printing didn't work properly either. P.S. this occurred with 2 amigas, 2 printers, and 2 cables. notepad, etc were sending out their graphics commands without difficulty (although notepad would always print a solid line before a graphics output). we tried epson, mps-1000 and generic printer files without success. John Russell Disclaimer: any opinions contained herein are my own, not those of any company or university. (OK, guys, you can relax now.)