| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
A stupid question or perhaps two:
I have a Microline 92 printer hooked to the serial port. I have
used the standard workbench setup screens to set the baud rate
and XON/XOFF for the serial line and to set the graphics for
the printer, etc.
BUT when I print something that has unprintable characters (tabs,
escape sequences) the unprintable chars get stripped before they
get to the printer.
This means that my nicely indented source code is all mashed to the
left margin AND that I can't send the escape sequences for near-letter
quality mode.
It also appears that XON/XOFF is being ignored (if I print something
long, characters get lost). This could be a separate problem or
another aspect of the same problem (XON/XOFF aren't printable..).
First, is there some obvious thing I need to set up that I haven't
done. Second, is there some book that I should have bought that
would have told me what the obvious thing was? All I have is the
1.3 book that came with the Amiga (plus a collection of programming
books that are very useful but don't back off to this level).
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks
Yours
Erg
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| 3012.1 | NZOV01::MCKENZIE | Cry HAVOC-Let slip The DOGS of WAR | Wed Oct 11 1989 19:18 | 2 | |
I had a similar problem with the Parallel port - see note 2470.*
for potential help
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| 3012.2 | All but tabs work | DUGGAN::GAY | Now where'd I put that hammer... | Fri Nov 10 1989 15:53 | 19 |
re .-1, Thanks for the pointer. Using SER: solved the escape sequence problem. Rechecking the dip switches on the printer fixed the XON/XOFF problem. But both of my printers (the uline 92 on the serial port and the Quadram Quadjet on the parallel port) do not print tabs. Since the printers themselves do just fine with tabs, I assume this to be a feature of the printer driver. I've switched editors to one that fills in spaces instead of putting in tab characters, so I don't have an overpowering urge to figger it out anymore. I don't think any of the docs that I have describe the character conversion done by the printer driver, but I'll look again. There is supposed to be V1.3 documentation coming that will describe how to build a driver. Perhaps that will help my confusion (one way or the other). Nice machine. Wish it didn't crash so often (I guess I shouldn't push it so hard - the problem with having multitasking is that I use it). Thanks again Erg | |||||
| 3012.3 | any interest in detab? | DUGGAN::GAY | Now where'd I put that hammer... | Tue Nov 28 1989 15:23 | 10 |
I wanted listings of some of the files that had tabs in them,
so I wrote a quick detabber last night. If anyone is interested
in something so simple, let me know and I'll upload it.
(There has to be an easier way. I suspect that if/when I get my
hands on the driver code, it'll be an easy fix. Perhaps there
is a setting on something that I just don't know about. For now, this
solves the problem)
Erg
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