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Hexadecimaldump
This featureis useful for programmed who are debuggingprintingpro-
grams and want to see the actual codes the printer is receiving.(Some
computerschangethe codestheprogrammerintended.)
Inthismode,alldatareceivedwillbeprintedinahexadecimaldumpformat,
ratherthanthecontrolcodesbeingactedon as commandcodes.
Thismodeis accessedwiththe followingprocedu~:
1.
2.
3.
While holdingboth the PAPERFEEDand PITCHbuttonsdown, turn
powerON. A beep tonewillbeheard.
Start printing.In placeof the usualprintoutyou will get a formatted
dumpshowingexactlywhatdatatheprinterreceives.Eachlinepresents
sixteencharactem their hexadecimalcodes to the left and printable
charactersprintedon the right.
At the end of the hexadecimaldump,set the printeroff-linewith the
ONLINEbutton.Thisis necessaryto printthe last line.
ThefollowingBASICprogramis a simpletestyoucanrunin hexadecimal
mode:
10
20
30
40
50
FOR 1=0 TO 255
LPRINT
CHR$( 1 ) ;
NEXT I
LPRINT
END
If your systempasses the codesdirectlyto the printer withoutchanging
them,youwillgeta printoutlikeFigure2-4.
m [:)1(:]203
04 05 06 07 0!3 09 [:IA Oi3 OC CID OE OF
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1[] 11 12 1.3 14 15 16 17
113 19 1A 113 IC ID IE IF
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
’20 ~~ ~~ p~
24 25 26 27
~S 29 ZQ ~B 2C 2D 2E 2F
! “#$”/.&’ ( ) *+, -. /
31> 31 32 33 34 35 3.5 37
38 39 30 7B 3C .3D 3E 3F
(:11234 !36789 : ; <:=:$?
40 41 42 4s 44 45 46 47 48 49 4A 4B 4C 4D 4E 4F
@9BCDEFGHI JKLMNO
50 51 52 5.3 54 55 36 57
5S 59 3A 5i3 5C !5D 5E 5F
PQRSTUVWXYZ [ \ lo-
60 01 62 63 64 .55 66 67 68 69 6A 6!3 6C 6D 6E 6F ‘abc de+ghi j k 1mno
70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77
78 7? 76 7B 7C 7D 7E 7F
pqt. stuvwxyz { : 3-’.
80 .91 S2 S3 84 S5 86 87
8S 89 8.4 8B 8C SD SE SF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
90 9 I 72 93 94 95 96 97
98 99 9A 9S 9C 9D 9E 9F
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
M) 01 42 As A4 65 A.5 Q7
AS 69 AA (WI AC 6D 9E 6F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
EI[:I B 1 E12 B3 E14 B5 Et6 E17
E18 !39 13A !3EI BC EID BE RF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CCI Cl C2 C.3 C4 C5 C6 C.7 C@ C9 CO CB CC CD CE CF
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
D(I DI D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7
DE! D9 DA DEI DC DD DE DF
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
E() E 1 E2 E3 E4 E’5 E6 E?
ES E9 EA EH EC ED EE EF
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F[l F 1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7
FB F9 FA FEI FC FD FE FF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(:]D (:)(?
. .
Figure 2-4.
Sample hexadecimal dump
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