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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ESC Seq in Wordstar?
Message-ID: <22789@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 22 May 88 21:36:03 GMT
References: <4330080@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
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In article <4330080@hpindda.HP.COM> mintz@hpindda.HP.COM (Ken Mintz) writes:
|Is there some way to enter an arbitrary control character, or at least an ESC
|character, into Wordstar text?  I'm using Wordstar 3.3.  I need to enter
|escape sequences to control a new printer.  I'd prefer not to WINSTALL again,
|if I can avoid it.

You're probably not going to like the answer....

It turns out that you can define up to four printer escape sequences
which can be bound to (if I recall correctly) ^P^Q, ^P^W, ^P^E, and
^P^R.  You're limited to only four sequences, and these are limited in
length (can't remember just how long).  I'm pretty sure WINSTALL lets
you do this, but I can't recall exactly because I played with the
object deck on odd occasions to play with the things that were in the
code but not "available".

If you play with WINSTALL and can't find anything referring to this
type of configuration, email me and I'll look it up.

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu