GhostPCL character chart?

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Sun Jun 28 19:34:52 PDT 2020


Yeah, it was taking the first character of field 255 on you.

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On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 02:22:49AM +0000, Jay R. Ashworth via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Fairlight via Filepro-list" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> 
> > On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 03:53:42PM -0400, Brian K. White via Filepro-list thus
> > spoke:
> >> I just tried the following on both an old and new box, and go the same
> >> output in the pdf, a blank space for chr255
> > 
> > Probably because 255 is the CP437 character for NBSP.
> > 
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437#Character_set
> 
> 
> Well, see, that's what I would have expected.  But I get SINGLE_DAGGER instead,
> whose name I could *not* remember the other day.
> 
> But wait: 
> 
> CHR(255)?
> 
> My code has 
> 
> CHR("255")
> 
> It's been a long time, but CHR is one of the things that still takes a numeric 
> literal?  Could that be my problem?
> 
> This came off a machine running, maybe 4.5; I think the current machine's on 5.0.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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