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From: arthur@pnet02.cts.com (Arthur L. Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Parallel Printer interface
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Date: 8 Apr 89 06:40:41 GMT
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rbharding@orchid.waterloo.edu (Ron Harding) writes:
>
>   I was wondering about how Atari printer interfaces, or the P: driver handle
>conversion of ATASCII to ASCII.  It seems to me that if the ATASCII codes such
>as EOL (155, $9b) are universally converted to the ASCII codes, such as CR/LF
>(13,10 $0d$0a), then important things like dot-matrix graphics will be munged
>up.  But if they aren't converted, then normal text won't print properly.
>

I'm fairly sure the 850 interface just converts all $9b's to $0d$0a.  You just
can't have $9b's in your graphics (try 7-line graphics).
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