From:	"Matthias Paul" <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Organization:	Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:09:01 +0100
Subject:	Code page switching for NEC Pinwriters: NECPINW.CPI 2.02
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Message-ID:	<3F888680363@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de>
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Hi,

I have developed a new, much enhanced issue of my NECPINW.CPI file
to enable code page switching on a broad range of NEC Pinwriters.

This new issue supports up to 80 code pages and character sets
available with these printers, including download or cardridge
fonts, EPROM options, etc. 

I have updated the file to support the new PC DOS 7 / 2000
code page 850 (Multilingual) variant with Eurocurrency symbol
at D5h. This codepage is available under ID 8501. 

Similar, NECPINW.CPI 2.02 supports the codepage variants 
introduced with Aitor Santamaria's EUROTSR extension for
FreeDOS which introduce the Eurocurrency symbol at 9Fh
(which, BTW, is not a good code point to use, IMHO...).

The archive NECPI202.ZIP comes with documentation and sources.
(BTW. I have changed the license to GNU GPL 2 now).

I will upload this file tonight and would like to invite all 
of you who have access to NEC Pinwriters to download this file 
from my homepage 

 http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html

to test it under a broad range of printers and configurations. 

I also have a similar file for the Epson LQ-570+/LQ-1070+ in
ALPHA stages, and if the techniques prove to work, it would
be able to adapt this to support *many* other printers, including
inkjet and laserjet models.

Please read the ToDo list in NECPINW.ASM for a list of open
questions. If you have access to some of the printer manuals
I would like to check some of my assumptions on your printer
model with you. If you can provide manuals (specs and control
sequences) for other printers they will prove to be very 
helpful.

At present NECPINW.CPI supports only DR DOS 6.0-7.05, but future 
issues may also support MS-DOS/PC DOS and FreeDOS (work still in 
progress).

 Matthias
 
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