Can printer definition file have colon?

[Kenneth Brody]

Nancy Palmquist wrote:
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> But I think you missed the point on this.  It can include a : which it 
> stores as a ^A in the table.  If the table is editted outside of filePro 
> and the colon is stored as a colon, filePro will be unable to load the 
> table - so you get no codes at all.

Correct.  The same thing holds for other no-longer-valid file formats.  I 
don't think that was the OP's point.

> But filePro does not change the ^A back to a : when it inserts it into 
> the document, so the expected colon is not in the inserted code as the 
> Anzio product requires.

If this is true, then why has no one reported it (AFAIK) in the past 26 years?

> I will be glad to send you an output like this.  I made a bunch yesterday.

I just tried it here on 5.6.07, and it worked just fine.  (Print code 12 in 
"IBMPRO", which is "$1b :", generates 0x1b 0x3a as expected.)

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Kenneth Brody