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From: mic@lapis.berkeley.edu (Michel Bruneau)
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Subject: Word Perfect: A rich feature and its problems
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Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 14:45:08 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 24 14:45:08 1987
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In my search for a good word processor, a friend showed me Word Perfect.
I is indeed amazing, but as my needs are rather specific, I tend to look into
the advanced features first before making my mind on a purchase.

So, while I was looking a bit at word perfect I was happy to see they provided
for a command that allows to send directly special commands to any printer.
It kind of puts a [Cmd] in the hidden codes, which is followed by the
string one needs (ex.: <27>%Z and garbage of the sort).
That is a very important feature for anybody who wants to get as much out
of his printer, but to my surprise there seemed to be difficulty to find
those caracters back.  The search command can find the [Cmd] part but 
cannot make the difference between the [Cmd <27>%Z] and [Cmd <27>%3].
This is critical as if you want to modify a text which has many different
of those escape sequences to port it to another printer.  If the system
could search/replace such a set of commands, it would be much better!

Has anybody found a way (command or macro) to perform such a task...
It is more important than it may seem as that very nice feature would become
rather useless as it would be impossible to quickly modify large customized
documents.  For the interested, the intend is to use customized downlodable
character sets on dot matrix printer, and being able to port it with minimal
trouble to a laser printer using multiple cartriges.