Date:         Wed, 8 Dec 1999 15:23:01 +0100
Reply-To:     Jim Groeneveld <J.Groeneveld@ITGROUPS.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jim Groeneveld <J.Groeneveld@ITGROUPS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Sending printer commands
Comments: To: Jim Brown <jrbrown00@BIGFOOT.COM>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Jim,

Thanks, I see what you mean by those strings: they represent the hexadecimal
values of the characters in the escape sequences, the digits just below each
other define the hex value. But why did you include all those leading and
trailing values 40 (chars. @)? Just curious.

Regards - Jim.
--
Y. Groeneveld, MSc            IMRO TRAMARKO       tel. +31 412 407 070
senior statistician           P.O. Box 1          fax. +31 412 407 080
                              5350 AA BERGHEM     IMRO TRAMARKO: a CRO
J.Groeneveld@ITGroups.com     the Netherlands     in clinical research

I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy, compatible y²°°°

"My job is to keep my computer working." - Jim Groeneveld

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Brown [SMTP:jrbrown00@BIGFOOT.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 4:45 PM
> To:   SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Sending printer commands
>
> Let me try again -
>
> The printer control file really looks this this in the SPF editor on
> MVS:
>
>   &l0O
>   &l5C
>   (s16.66H
>
> and
>
>   E
>
> The hex versions follow.  What seems to be spaces before the &, ( and E
> is actually hex '1B' which translates into 16+11 = 27. To see this, I
> entered HEX ON in SPF and to enter the !B I moved down to two hex rows.
> Please forgive me if I'm stating the obvious.
>
>   &l0O
> 4159FD444444444444
> 0B0306000000000000
> ------------------
>   &l5C
> 4159FC444444444444
> 0B0353000000000000
> ------------------
>   (s16.66H
> 414AFF4FFC44444444
> 0BD216B66800000000
>
>
> and
>
>   E
> 41C444
> 0B5000
>