User`s manual

Command Editor Any ASCII based text editor can serve to create sim

ple command files. In the DOS environment, MS-

DOS EDIT offers a good choice. To execute the file,

use the Print command from the editor, or from

DOS, the COPY command, to send the file to the

printer. Examples using the COPY command are:

COPY file name.ext LPT1↵

COPY file name.ext COM1↵

For more information on the use of the COPY com

mand, refer to a DOS software manual.

Some text editing programs can cause printer errors

by adding extra characters or by changing existing

characters when generating a near ASCII formatted

file.

Example: A common ASCII editor, BRIEF, changes

all NUL characters to the SPACE or TAB characters

with a file save. The graphic data for print intensity

level “0" is the NUL character. This causes the re-

sulting file to print with horizontal lines in all graph-

ics with solid white, i.e., no print, areas. Other

editors may add a SUB character (Dec. 26 or 1A

Hex.), which causes the printer to error.

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