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From: nga@root.co.uk (Nick Armitage)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.text
Subject: Re: nroff eats my esc codes
Message-ID: <380@root44.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 04:06:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: root44.380
Posted: Tue Jul 28 04:06:40 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Aug-87 08:42:19 EDT
References: <4219@sunybcs.UUCP> <1874@kitty.UUCP>
Organization: Root Computers Ltd., London, England
Lines: 29
Summary: hacked solution
Xref: mnetor comp.misc:898 comp.text:1007

In article <1874@kitty.UUCP>, larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
> In article <4219@sunybcs.UUCP>, twomey@sunybcs.uucp (Bill Twomey) writes:
> > Is there any way of letting nroff pass escape through
> > to the final document?  I'm trying to play with an HP LaserJet,

i don't know what the real way of doing this is because i'm not an nroff guru
(although i have no problems getting  ditroff  to produce really wizzo output
on our laser printers),  but i recall this being a problem on a version seven
(!) system which i used when i was still in diapers..

one of the users was trying to coax a  diablo 630  to do something weird with
escape codes. the operation which he wanted it to do was not described in the
printer-specific file "T630-12" or some-such.

not having source to regenerate the file, he hacked it using adb so that when
he tried to print a code that he wasn't using for other things to the diablo,
instead of doing nothing (normal behaviour for an undefined  printer-specific
character i think) it sent an escape to the diablo.

i realise that this is a really ghastly hack, and that  there may  well be a
kosher way to do this, but it worked.

hope this helps..

nick
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