From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: output to printer Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: <1on7fs86efsll2ko50atv0n8kh5j074h19@4ax.com> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 35 X-Trace: /bNDC2prV56vGJ2BJvI6QTFaL3aKTDTgxow7mnVf9dxP1VMbdwQLdQoShXSYrey44K8kp+65RlEL!dXSP9luKVtZOKtcMb64GguVs/DXKnHH15Y97Y3MFKdt2uywNT0dQosEgqVREkjYxHL5pKXtPz+0f!LQZf+SM= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 02:30:40 GMT Distribution: world Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 02:30:41 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:01:25 GMT, "Bob" 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. | | +-----------+-----------+-----------+ | | | | +-----------+-----------+-----------+ | | | | +-----------+-----------+-----------+ -- Damian Yerrick "I refuse to listen to those who refuse to listen to reason." See the whole sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your signature to prevent the spread of signature viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/