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From: heff@bsdpkh.ATT.COM (Paul K Heffner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Re:so that others... Hi-res Screen dump...
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Date: Wed, 6-May-87 09:02:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  6 09:02:48 1987
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in article <8705021952.aa08657@SPARK.BRL.ARPA>, WCSCKCU@CARLETON.BITNET (Marc Grondin) says:
> 
> could the reason that the printer never gets the CHR$(9) be that the
> printer interface card wants the character??? Mine (Grappler+) wants to
> know the character width when it sees a ctrl-I.  Also, some printer
> cards or printers (like mine) can be told to "add a linefeed" to a CR.

Yeah, the interface cards on an apple ][ can subject you to some heavy
interference on some characters. I had some real trouble sneaking tab
characters through the old serial printer card. The Super Serial card
can be put into a "transparent mode" and we finally had to go to those.

Heff