RE: pjl help, once again...

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tim

You probably want hex - those look like HP's output where <CR><LF> is x0D0A
in ASCII.

You might need to use a WSCST (workstation customization) object to handle
converting the ESC (x1B). That code wreaked havoc with our printers, as I
recall. The origginal solution used a 2-char sequence that was converted at
a DecisionData workstation to the ASCII ESC. But that did not work when we
moved to IP printing. Then we ran RTVWSCST against the printer
manufacturer/model (see the prompt of the command for a match with your
HP). Then I added an EBCDIC-ASCII translation section that used a
seldom-used character in ASCII to convert to the ESC. I used x9E, I think -
it was the character that looks like 'a' and 'e' stuck to each other. - Æ .
An example can be seen at
<http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.NSF/acf2ee1e9d64b16e8625680b00020389/4a3112207b82f0ae862565c2007d0dbf?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,ebcasctbl>.
You can find the values you need for the other code points in the WRKTBL
command - find the table that corresponds to the EBCDIC->ASCII translation,
display it , and build the DATA section of the WSCST accordingly.

Good luck

Vern

At 10:50 AM 8/20/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Thanks for the reply... But I have a question concerening this..
>Ec%-12345X@PJL <CR> <LF> @PJL SET COPIES = 3 <CR> <LF> Ec%-12345X
>the Ec%  is that straight text?  Or do I need a hex value to emulate the
>escape sequence?
>
>Thanks, tim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vernon Hamberg [SMTP:vhamberg@attbi.com]
> > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 9:51 PM
> > To:   midrange-l@midrange.com
> > Subject:      Re: pjl help, once again...
> >
> > I seem to remember having a single field in a single format, SPACEB(0).
> > You
> > set the field to the string you want to send. You can fill it with hex
> > strings as well as regular strings. Maybe put the various pieces into a
> > file and just read it. Where I used to work we had an extensive system
> > like
> > this that built PCL on the fly - sorry, no code.
> >
> > DDS to define the format in a PRTF. And, optionally, a PF to contain the
> > codes.
> > RPG to set the field value and WRITE to the PRTF
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Vern
> >
> > At 04:24 PM 8/19/02 -0700, you wrote:
> > >How do I send these type of commands, to a printer connected to the
> > as/400
> > >via tcp/ip
> > >
> > >Is it via a CL? RPG?  DDS?  PRTF?
> > >
> > >Could someone please help, with a sample piece of code?
> > >
> > >Thanks...  Tim