OT: PCL (was Re: printing to windows spooler - width of doc problem)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:46:33PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Wed, 6 Apr 2005 19:26:29 -0400):
> [...]
> > And the "c" vs "C" thing is an HP PCL thing: capital usually means set
> > the option, and lower case means clear it (I did get the polarity
> > right, right Jim?  :-).
> [...]
> 
> As I recall, you can string a series of PCL commands together (as long
> as they all start with the same prefix) by using a lower case letter on
> them, with the final one being capital.
> 
> ie: (this is not necessarily meaningful, just an example)
> 
>     ESC & 123 X ESC & 456 Y ESC & 789 Z
> 
> can be shortened to:
> 
>     ESC & 123 x 456 y 789 Z

Forgive me all; Ken's correct.

PCL uses the capital letter as the sequence termination flag.

It's *ANSI terminal sequences* that use it as a polarity flag.

Oops.

Cheers,
-- jra
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