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From: kasper@su-russell.ARPA (Kasper Osterbye)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: Printer troubles
Message-ID: <353@su-russell.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 17:00:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: su-russe.353
Posted: Fri Sep 18 17:00:57 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 04:13:10 EDT
References: <7200009@uiucdcsm> <4580@videovax.Tek.COM>
Reply-To: kasper@su-russell.UUCP (Kasper Osterbye)
Organization: Stanford University, CSLI
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In article <4580@videovax.Tek.COM> stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.) writes:
>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:
>> [Rest deleted cause the mailer asked to do so, Kasper]
>"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

Sorry for deleting, but otherwise this would grow to much.

I had the same problem as Mike. And a huried to my amiga when
I came home after reading Steve's note. And it sure worked, I
was able to get italics and proportional spacing and god knows
what. BUT I was not able to get by danish or any other ALT-selected
charaters through anymore. Apparently the PRT: device is smart,
(it is I checked the output to the printer in hexcode like Mike did,
the ALT-selected characters were expanded into strings as long as
nine bytes long).

So do Steve, or any boddy else know how to send escapes to the PRT:
device?

kasper.

ARPA kasper@russell.stanapo).  Ce