IBM Printing System manual Printer control commands, Using printer control commands

3.Memory Card / RAM Disk

3-3 Printer control commands

It is possible to issue simple commands to the Memory Card and RAM Disk from the MS-DOS Prompt in Windows.

3-3-1 Using printer control commands

A printer control command line includes “!R!” (Command operation start), as well the actual commands and parameters that are to be implemented and that are entered after that.

The basic configuration of a printer control command line is as follows:

[Example] To delete the print data entitled “SAMPLE.txt” from the Memory Card

ECHO !R! RWER D,A,2,ÒSAMPLE.txtÓ; EXIT;>LPT1

A B CDE F

A:DOS command

B:Command operation start

C:Command (“RWER D” is the command to delete data)

D:Parameters (“A” refers to the Memory Card, “2” refers to the type of data [in this case print data] and “SAMPLE.txt” is the name of the corresponding partition)

E:Command operation end

F:Printer connection port (Network: “PRN”, Local: “LPT1”, etc.)

CAUTIONS

•When issuing DOS commands in the Japanese input mode, ALWAYS use JIS ASCII (JIS C6220) characters. Kanji Code and Kanji Half- Space Code input will not work.

•Enter all commands in uppercase (capital) letters.

•Be sure to enter a semi-colon (;) at the end of each standard command [shown as “C” in the example above] (or after the corresponding parameter, if included), and separate each individual parameter with a comma (,).

•Be sure to enter a space before and after the “!R!” command, as well as before “EXIT;”.

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