If you have a file with the escape sequences on the Aspect 3000 you
can send it to the printer with the LIST command. For example if
the file is named SETUP.PTR and the printer is connected to channel B
you could type:
LIST SETUP.PTR/=BO
Be careful if your printer cares about the parity bit (bit 7) because
Kermit and NMRLINK (I don't know about ZZNET or NMRNET) will set the
parity bit of each character transferred when transfering in ASCII mode.
If the file is transferred in binary mode the parity bit is left alone
but the byte order may be wrong. You'll have to experiment with this.
> Could an ".EXE" file do the job, or is the script language
> for ADAKOS too primative?
The EXE interpreter in ADAKOS cannot generate characters and send them
to the serial ports by itself (i.e. there is no equivalent to
"echo '\007'" etc.). However, the DO program (which is an extention
to the EXE interpreter and is distributed on the "SYSTOOLS" floppy
could be used to issue the above LIST command before printing files.
For example if you had two files, one to setup the printer for printing
called SET.PTR and the other called UNSET.PTR to return it to the "normal"
state you could write a script called PRINTIT.EXE the following:
LIST SET.PTR/=BO
LIST #P1/=BO
LIST UNSET.PTR/=BO
You could then print files with the following command:
DO PRINTIT filename.ext
Best Regards,
Charlie
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