Can printer definition file have colon?

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Kenneth Brody propounded (on Fri, May 22, 2009 at 03:42:02PM -0400):
| Nancy Palmquist wrote:
| [...]
| > 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.)

Ah me, here we go again on the meaning of `is'.

The code "is seen" as "$1b :" when in pmaint.

But run vi or less on .../fp/lib/ipmpro.prt and sure enough it "is seen"
as "$1b ^A".

Thus it actually "is" Ctrl-A, or hex 0x01, in ../fp/lib/ipmpro.prt.

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JP