Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Bug in TP4 printer-unit
Message-ID: <916@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 88 08:55:13 GMT
References: <304@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <900@bucket.UUCP> <319@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 <319@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
<>
<>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.
<
<  Some feature!
<  You can print all char's from 0 to 255 except 26.  Can anyone give me
<a single reason (or more) why you sholdn't be able to print CTRL-Z?

Check again! Some of those other codes are being played with too. At the very
tabs are being expanded. As I understand it, it wasn't really intentional, they
just used a different DOS or BIOS call (or made the call differently?)

I vaguely remember seeing a 'fix' on the Borland forum on Compuserve, but it
may have been a replacement unit! You might try writing Borland, as I imagine
that CIS is a bit expensive from Europe!

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