From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: output to printer
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On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:01:25 GMT, "Bob" <fubu36 AT stny DOT rr DOT com> wrote:

>When ouput is sent to the printer it won't print any of the
>special ascii characters like the lines and stuff around # 176.

Those characters are not ASCII; they're Codepage437.

>All i get is other letters.

Are they accented letters?  If so, your printer may be using an
ISOLatin1 font.

Are they the same letter as the character 128 away?  If so, your
printer might be using 7-bit ASCII like my ImageWriter II.

>Does anyone know how to print out lines for a table with out
>switching out of text mode? thanks.

+-----------+-----------+-----------+
|   Make    |    it     |   look    |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+
|   like    |   this.   |           |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+
|           |           |           |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+
|           |           |           |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+

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