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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Bug in TP4 printer-unit
Message-ID: <900@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 88 06:44:09 GMT
References: <304@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <304@krafla.rhi.hi.is> bjornb@krafla.UUCP (Bjorn H Bjornsson) writes:
<When you do a write(lst, chr(26)) in Turbo Pascal 4.00 the character 26
<(Ctrl-Z) gets lost.  This is absolutely fatal when you're printing
<special codes, and VERY annoying when you're doing printer-graphics
<(which is how the bug introduced itself).
<This same code works alright in TP3.
<
<The bug's probably in the Printer unit, (it just occured to me though,
<that Write itself might be faulty). 

This not a bug. It's a feature. :-( 

What's happening is that TP3 opened the printer in "raw" mode, while TP4
opens it in "cooked" mode. You might try writing Borland for a work around.

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