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5250 REMOTE EMULATOR CARD
1
To select any of the functions in Section 1, press the indicated function
key. See Table 7-3 below for a description of these functions.
Table 7-3. Printer Commands
Command Printer Function
F1 START/STOP: Press [F1] to start or stop the printer.
F2 TRUNCATE/WRAP-AROUND: In truncate mode, narrow-
carriage printers ignore data beyond 8” (80 columns). In
wrap mode, the data prints on the next line.
F3 LINE FEED: Each time the [F3] key is pressed, the paper in
the printer will advance one line.
F4 FORM FEED: The paper advances to the top of the next
page and resets the line and column counts to one.
F5 CANCEL PRINTER JOB: Sends a cancel request to the
System/3X host. This will not cancel data already in the
printer buffer.
F6 USER CONTROL OF PITCH, PRINT QUALITY AND
LINE SPACING: Defines the pitch, printer quality and line
spacing for the attached PC printer. Host commands which
alter these values are ignored.
F7 HOST CONTROL OF PITCH, PRINT QUALITY AND
LINE SPACING: With this enabled, host commands control
pitch, print quality, and line spacing.
F8 RE-INITIALIZE PRINTER: Returns to the original printer
configuration.
F9 BUFFER PRINT: Prints host commands for diagnostics. This
is referred to as a “hex dump.”
F10 ASSIGN PRINTER TO DOS/HOST/AUTO: Prints only DOS
jobs when DOS
is highlighted, only host jobs when Host is
highlighted, or automatically selects from host or DOS
when Auto is highlighted.
Shift F1 Shifts from 17- to 15-pitch printing (5219 and 3812
emulations do not support this function). Only affects dot-
matrix printers.