4-Jan-84 16:22:04-MST,1338;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from bbn-unix by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Wed 4 Jan 84 16:21:50-MST Date: Wed, 4 Jan 84 15:06:34 EST From: Mike Simpson Subject: printer questions To: northstar-users@simtel-20, info-micro@brl, info-cpm@brl Cc: msimpson@bbn-unix I have an Okidata M82A dot-matrix printer, and a NorthStar Advantage (running Graphics CP/M rev 2.2). When I attempt to print something out of WordStar (no flames, please), I find that there is no easy way to get double-width (5 characters/inch) printing. The Okidata users' manual gives the codes necessary to accomplish this in BASIC, and I can convert the decimal codes to hex or octal as necessary. But I can only see (from WordStar) the commands to toggle bold print (8.3 characters/inch) and the commands to toggle double print (which just seems to be coming out as overstrking, not as the 5 characters/inch printing I would have expected). Are there any good ways to insert ASCII 28(decimal) to ASCII 31(decimal) into my WordStar text file? Thanks in advance. Responses to me; I will summarize to the net. -- cheers, Mike Simpson, BBN msimpson@bbn-unix (ARPA) {decvax,linus,wjh12}!bbncca!msimpson (Usenet) 5-Jan-84 08:41:05-MST,858;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from BRL-VOC by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Thu 5 Jan 84 08:40:59-MST Date: Thu, 5 Jan 84 8:17:01 EST From: "Ferd Brundick (LTTB)" To: Mike Simpson cc: northstar-users@simtel20, info-micro@brl, info-cpm@brl, msimpson@bbn-unix Subject: Re: printer questions Hi, You want to install patches in the user-defined functions ^Q,^W,^E, and ^R. These can be multiple key sequences, which is quite handy if your printer uses ESCape sequences like mine does. Check your Word* manual on how to go about defining your own functions. dsw, fferd Fred S. Brundick USABRL, APG, MD. 5-Jan-84 16:48:06-MST,554;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from bbn-unix by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Thu 5 Jan 84 16:47:56-MST Date: Thu, 5 Jan 84 11:40:30 EST From: Mike Simpson Subject: NorthStar Users Group, Boston Area To: northstar-users@simtel-20 Cc: msimpson@bbn-unix Can anyone provide me with the address of a Northstar Users Group in the Boston area (particularly northeast of Boston, perhaps the Merrimack Valley)? -- thanks, Mike Simpson, BBN arpa: msimpson@bbn-unix usenet: {decvax,linus,wjh12}!bbncca!msimpson 6-Jan-84 19:43:03-MST,514;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from MIT-MC by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Fri 6 Jan 84 19:42:42-MST Date: 6 January 1984 21:41 EST From: Devon S. McCullough Subject: NorthStar Users Group, Boston Area To: msimpson @ BBN-UNIX cc: northstar-users @ SIMTEL20 In-reply-to: Msg of Thu 5 Jan 84 11:40:30 EST from Mike Simpson I'm a N* user, although right now my system is on load in DC, and I am pretty knowledgable and would like to know abou any such group too. 10-Jan-84 12:43:47-MST,511;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from BRL by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Tue 10 Jan 84 12:43:40-MST Date: Tue, 10 Jan 84 14:14:53 EST From: George Keller (IBD) To: northstar-users@simtel20 Subject: All-Caps key on Advantage Has anyone used a program (assembly or other) to change the state of the all caps key on an Advantage? So far, all I get when I try to follow the directions in the Tech Manual is to blow the machine away. Any ideas would be appreciated. George 23-Jan-84 17:42:14-MST,606;000000000000 Mail-From: WANCHO created at 23-Jan-84 17:41:36 Date: 23 Jan 1984 17:41 MST (Mon) Message-ID: From: "Frank J. Wancho" To: NORTHSTAR-USERS@SIMTEL20 Subject: CP/M 2.2 rev 1.1.0 I stumbled across the following in a dealer bulletin dated early last year. The patch supposedly described takes care of a spurious BDOS ERROR ON A: R/O message. I have not yet installed this patch, but plan to after reviewing the surrounding code. DDT CPMGEN.COM L2F31 ANI 02 JNZ 7992 A2F31 MVI A,99 STA 7FAB ^C SAVE 51 NEWGEN.COM --Frank