| Title: | -={ H A C K E R S }=- |
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| Moderator: | DIEHRD::MORRIS |
| Created: | Thu Feb 20 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Aug 03 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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I'm having a problem getting an LA100 printer to print the
VT100 line drawing character set. Is anyone familiar with
this?
The LA100 is connected to a 785 via a DZ11. It is set up
on a print queue.
I am sending printing file with various escape sequences.
All of the escape sequences work fine (change pitch, under-
line), except for the VT100 line set sequence.
I ran the self test on the LA100 and the status report
indicated that the G1 character set as Line Drawing.
Based on this I am using ")0" to set the line drawing
character set. Immediately following this sequence are such
characters as "q", "j", and "x" which should print as various
line elements. The actual characters are printed.
The LA100 does not have one of the optional print font ROMs
installed. Is this the problem?
Thanks
Ed...
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 357.1 | Use <SI> and <SO>! | VIKING::WASSER | John A. Wasser | Sat Nov 22 1986 18:29 | 23 |
> I ran the self test on the LA100 and the status report
> indicated that the G1 character set as Line Drawing.
> Based on this I am using ")0" to set the line drawing
> character set. Immediately following this sequence are such
> characters as "q", "j", and "x" which should print as various
> line elements. The actual characters are printed.
"<ESC>)0" will map Line Drawing characters into G1 which should
be the default set used for GR (the right half of the character
table). To invoke G1 into GL (the left half of the character
table) you need to insert the character <SO> (Shift Out) before
characters to be interpreted as VT100 Line Drawing. When you
want to switch back to normal characters (GL=G0), send <SI>
(Shift In).
<SI> = CHR$(15) = '\017' = 0x0F
<SO> = CHR$(14) = '\016' = 0x0E
-John A. Wasser
P.S. There are many other ways to do it... just find a
Programmers Reference Manual.
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| 357.2 | On the other hand... | RDGENG::LESLIE | Andy `{o}^{o}' Leslie, ECSSE, OSI. | Fri Nov 28 1986 19:15 | 3 |
if you don't have the additional ROMs with the char set in, you
can't do it anyhow.
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