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From: bjornb@rhi.hi.is (Bjorn H Bjornsson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: TP printer-unit bug ?
Message-ID: <1001@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 25 May 89 21:09:38 GMT
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Reply-To: bjornb@rhi.hi.is (Bjorn H Bjornsson)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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First the bad news:
I had the same problem last summer with TP4.
Seems that in the old days (less or equal TP3) TurboPascal used lowlevel
routines to read and write to the ports, but now TP uses higher level
DOS functions to do the same thing.
For some reason (way beyond comprahension) these functions filter out ESCAPE.

And now the good news:
Ernest V. Mathews III sent me a substitude printer-unit which can print
ESCAPE.  I would have posted it here, but I'm not sure whether this newsgroup
is the right spot for such things.  AND because this being a year ago, there
must be a newer version of the program out there (somewhere).  I'll post it 
to you, though, if you want.

Bjorn
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