Star Micronics SB-15 Printing Download Characters, 44READ MM Lprint CHR$MM Next M Next N

10 LPRINT CHR$ (27) “k” CHR$( 1) CHRS(160) CHR$(162);

20 FOR N = 160 TO 162

30 FOR M = 0 TO 11

44)READ MM

50 LPRINT CHR$(MM);

60 NEXT M

70 NEXT N

80 LPRINT

90 DATA 139,2,5,8,241,0,0,241,8,5,2,0

100 DATA 139,124,0,66,4,64,36,16,2,16,12,0

110 DATA 139,46,16,2,60,0,48,0,48,0,48,0

When you run this program, it looks like nothing happens. That’s OK. We’ll see why in just a moment. Save this program. We’ll need it again shortly.

PRINTING DOWNLOAD CHARACTERS

You’ve now defined and sent three characters to SD-10/15. But how do you know that? If you try printing those characters now (type LPRINT CHR$( 160) CHR$(161) CHR$( 162)) you don’t get a flask, car and gun. Instead you get.../ > < or a%.

That’s becausethe download charactersarestoredin a different part of SD-lo/l 5’s memory. To tell it to look in download characterRAM instead of standard character ROM it requires

anothercommand:

(For STAR mode)

<ESC> "$" n

(For IBM mode)

<ESC> "%" n 0

This command is used to select the download character set (if it=1)or to selectthe standardcharacterset(ifn=O). Let’s try it out. Enter this command:

LPRINT CHR$(27) "$1" CHR$(16Q)) CHRS(161) CHR$(162)

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