Re: sending a printer control character from RPG

[Terry Owen <sandstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug - you make it sound very easy.  I'll let you know how it turns out.
My sincerest thanks (which you would know how profound they are when you
conider how printer file illiterate I am - and especially if I don't have
to move my o-specs to a special one.  File over-rides I can handle.).  :-)

Terry


At 09:18 PM 10/04/2000 -0400, Douglas Handy wrote:
>
>The prefix is simply x'03' followed by a 1-byte binary count of the
>byte(s) to pass thru transparently, followed by the data byte(s).  So
>if you needed just one byte to be sent, say x'0A' (which is Ctrl-J),
>then you would output x'03010A' from the RPG program.

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