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From: stever@videovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Printer troubles
Message-ID: <4580@videovax.Tek.COM>
Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 12:08:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: videovax.4580
Posted: Thu Sep 17 12:08:55 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 17:59:06 EDT
References: <7200009@uiucdcsm>
Reply-To: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon
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In article <7200009@uiucdcsm>, Mike Schwager( schwager@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu)
writes:

> Here's an odd little problem I'm having:
> I can't seem to get the ASCII "escape" character to my printer.
> From BASIC, I do a:
> 	lprint chr$(27)+"W"+chr$(1)+"hello"
> which is supposed to print the word "hello" double-width, but it
> doesn't.  "hello" is simply printed in normal pica.  I've tried other
> escape codes also, to no avail.  I can power my printer up in Hex mode.
> Then the ASCII representation of every char sent to the printer is
> supposed to print.  Instead of getting:
> 
> 1B 57 01 68 65 6C 6C 6F
> 
> like I'm supposed to, I get:
> 
> 01 68 65 6C 6C 6F
> 
> In other words, the escape char and the "W" evaporate.  Any ideas?

"lprint" does swallow escapes!  To avoid this, do

      OPEN "PAR:" FOR OUTPUT AS #1
        .
        .
        .
      PRINT #1,CHR$(27)+"W"+CHR$(1)+"hello"

(If your printer is on the serial port, open that instead of PAR:.)

This is a bit of a kludge, but it will work. . .

					Steve Rice

P.S. My manuals and my Amiga are at home, so I please excuse any errors
     in the command format!

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