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From: sklein@cdp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: HELP! Setting Tabs on Imagewriter
Message-ID: <69400004@cdp>
Date: 14 Nov 88 21:27:00 GMT
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Nf-ID: #N:cdp:69400004:000:1720
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!sklein    Nov 14 13:27:00 1988



I'm having trouble printing ASCII messages like those in this conference.
Whenever these messages contain Ctrl-I characters (TABs), the text is
*not* tabbed on my printer.  For example, something might look like this
on the screen:        Column 1          Column 2
but print like this:  Column1Column2

The problem seems to have two sources.  The Super Serial Card uses Ctrl-I
as it's control character, and the ImageWriter II doesn't have any
pre-set tabs.  So I wrote this simple AppleSloth program, hoping it would
fix both problems and make TAB characters print correctly.

Why doesn't it work?

10 D$ =  CHR$ (4):                 REM D$ = Ctrl-D
20 PRINT D$"PR#1":                 REM Direct output to printer
30 PRINT  CHR$ (9); CHR$ (23):     REM Set SSC control
                                       character to Ctrl-W

50 PRINT CHR$(27) CHR$(40),5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50, CHR$(46)
60 REM Line 50 sets tabs to every 5 columns

70 PRINT "a" CHR$(9) "b" CHR$(9) "c" CHR$(9) "d"
80 REM Line 70 prints the letters A-D in columns 1, 5, 10 & 15

90 PRINT D$"PR#0":                  REM Direct output to monitor
99 END


I'm at wits end.  I've tried everything I can think of, but it prints out
using AppleSoft 16-column tabs, no matter what I try.

H  E  L  P  !!!!

-Shabtai Klein
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