Abbreviation of its name, Its Decimal Value

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the

abbreviation of its name

ASCII

its

decimal

value

ASCII

OAH

its

hexadecimal

value

(the

H signifies hex)

CHR$(lO)

the

way it’s used in BASIC

control-J

the

way you send it from

a keyboard.

There’s a chart in Appendix F that shows these side-by-side so

that you can convert back and forth.

The reason that we are telling you all this about ASCII codes

is that people are not very consistent about how they describe

ASCII codes. We are going to help you use SD-lo/l5 with

commercial software, but we don’t know what its documentation

is going to call the various codes. So if you know all the different

things that the codes might be called, it will be easier to figure

out what it is trying

tell you.

Now, armed with the knowledge of what to look for, you can

delve

into the

manuals

of your

commercial

software

and dig out

the secrets of how to send “control codes” to your printer. When

you find the

method

that your

program

uses, then you can shop

through this manual to find the function that you want to use.

By translating

the codes

from

the system

that

we use, to the system

...

that your commercial software uses, you should be able to use

many

of SD-IO/IS’s

advanced

features.

may help,

however if

_.-

we look at a couple of examples.

nUsing SD-lo/15 with SuperCalc

SuperCalc is typical of the many spreadsheet programs that
are now available. It has the capability of using several of the
advanced features of SD-lO/lS.	Perhaps the most often	used
feature with spreadsheet programs	is compressed printing.	Let’s	-	-
see how to use compressed printing with SuperCalc.				-
In SuperCalc, the /Output command provides output to the				-
In SuperCalc, the /Output command provides output to the
printer. One of the options of the /Output command is S(etup).
This option provides you with a menu of functions to configure
SuperCalc to match your printer. You can change the number				--
of characters that SuperCalc will print on a line and the number				--

of lines that will print on a page. You should be sure that these				-
values match your printer. SD-lo’s print 80 characters per line				-

of pica type, or 136 characters of condensed type. SD-15 can
print 136 characters per line of pica type, or 233 characters per
line of condensed type. One of the other options on this menu
is “send setup codes to printer”.	This is how we tell SD-lo/l5

Star Micronics SB-15 user manual Abbreviation of its name, Its Decimal Value

Models: SB-15

abbreviation of its name

its

decimal

value

ASCII

OAH