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<LF> -
the abbreviation of its name
ASCII 10 -
its decimal value
ASCII OAH - its hexadecimal value (the H signifies hex)
CHR$(lO) -
the way it’s used in BASIC
control-J - the way you send it from a keyboard.
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There’s a chart in Appendix F that shows these side-by-side so
that you can convert back and forth.
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The reason that we are telling you all this about ASCII codes
is that people are not very consistent about how they describe
ASCII codes. We are going to help you use SD-lo/l5 with
commercial software, but we don’t know what its documentation
is going to call the various codes. So if you know all the different
things that the codes might be called, it will be easier to figure
out what it is trying to tell you.
Now, armed with the knowledge of what to look for, you can
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delve into the manuals of your commercial software and dig out
the secrets of how to send “control codes” to your printer. When
you find the method that your program uses, then you can shop
through this manual to find the function that you want to use.
By translating the codes from the system that we use, to the system
that your commercial software uses, you should be able to use
many of SD-IO/IS’s advanced features. It may help, however if
we look at a couple of examples.
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n Using SD-lo/15 with SuperCalc
SuperCalc is typical of the many spreadsheet programs that
are now available. It has the capability of using several of the
advanced features of SD-lO/lS. Perhaps the most often used
feature with spreadsheet programs is compressed printing. Let’s
see how to use compressed printing with SuperCalc.
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In SuperCalc, the /Output command provides output to the
printer. One of the options of the /Output command is S(etup).
This option provides you with a menu of functions to configure
SuperCalc to match your printer. You can change the number
of characters that SuperCalc will print on a line and the number
of lines that will print on a page. You should be sure that these
values match your printer. SD-lo’s print 80 characters per line
of pica type, or 136 characters of condensed type. SD-15 can
print 136 characters per line of pica type, or 233 characters per
line of condensed type. One of the other options on this menu
is “send setup codes to printer”. This is how we tell SD-lo/l5
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