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-

the abbreviation

of its name

ASCII

10

-

its

decimal value

 

ASCII

OAH

-

its

hexadecimal

value (the

H signifies hex)

CHR$(

10)

-

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 SG-lo/15 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 to 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 SG- 10/l 5’s advanced features. It may help, however if we look at a couple of examples.

nUsing SG-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 SG-10/15. 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

 

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. SG-10’s print 80 characters per line

 

of pica type, or 136 characters of condensed type. SG-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 SG- IO/l 5

 

-

-

-

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