Definedraft downloadcharacter(s)

 

 

 

IBM

<ESC>

=

al>

4>

<DC4> cm>

d>

cd>

cdl>

...

411>

I IBh

3Dh

cd>

4>

14h

cm>

cal>

cd>

ail>

...

42>1

27

61

al>

42>

20

->

al>

cd>

41>

...

411>

Thecommandaboveenablesthe definitionof “soft”charactersto be downloaded. This commandis only valid if “DOWNLOAD”has been selectedin the RAM USAGEmenuof theMemorySwitch(seeChapter3 fordetails),and thedraftmode hasbeen selectedbeforethis commandis executed.

The followingrules are observed.cnl> and d> give the numberof bytes of characterdata that will follow. cm is the charactercode of the frostcharacter defined.al> and CU2>are attributesbytes.’<all>to cdll> are thecharacterdata, and are the sameas in cESC> “&”. Theatrnbutebyte d> indicateswhetherthe characters anascender(notusingthelowestofthenineverticd dots)ora descender (not usingthe highestdot) and whetherit has a downwardextensionto 12dots.

The atrnbutebyte d?> givesproportional-spacinginformation.Bit 7 is ignored. Bits4 to6 specifytheoffsetto thefwstbyteprinted(Oto 7),enablingleadingspaces inthecharactertobeignored.BitsOto3 specifythewidthofthecharactercell(maxi- mum 11 dots). The characterwill be followedby a mandato~ blank dot column whichis not includedin thiswidth.

Charactersdefinedby this commandcan be selectedby cESb % 1,cESC> 14, cESC> 15, or cESC> 16.

Define NLQ downloadcharacter(s)

 

 

Both

<ESC>

&

<NUb

<cl>

<C2>

cab

Cal>

d>

<*

. . .

‘C*

 

I IBh

26h

OOh

ccl>

<C2>

cab

I Cal>

d>

<*

...

<0

 

27

38

0

ccl>

<C2>

-b

Cal>

cd>

<m

...

<0

 

Thecommandaboveenablesthedefinitionof “soft”charactersto be downloaded. Thefollowingrulesareobserved.<cl> andec2> arebinaryvalueswhichdetermine the characterrange which will be replacedby downloadeddata. For instance,if ccZ>=20handec2>=30h,all charactersfrom20hthrough30hwillbe overwritten by thedownloadeddata.Ifa downloadedcharacteris storedin thearea80hthrough 9Eh, it can only be printed in the characterset #2 mode. It is possibleto store downloadedcharactersin the part of the characterset reserved for IBM block

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