Star Micronics SR-10/I5 Changing The Page Length, Form feed commands, Form length commands

Table 63 Form feed commands

CHANGING THE PAGE LENGTH

You may have some computer forms that you wish to use with SR- lo/ 15 that are not 11 inches high. That’s no problem, because you can tell SR-lo/15 how high the forms are that you are using. There are two commands for doing this, shown in this table:

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Form length commands

11

Setthepage lengthtoninches STAR < ESC> “C"CHR$(O)CHR$@)

Let’s set up a 7 inch high form length, which is typical of many computer checks. The following program will do it.

10 'Demo variable form lengths.

2@ LPRINT CHR$(27) "C" CHR$(@) CHR$(7) ; 'Form length 7 inches.

30 LPRINT "Pay to the order of:"

40 LPRINT CHR$(12) ; 'Form feed.

50 LPRINT "Pay to the order of:"

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This program should print “Pay to the order of:” twice, and they should be 7 inches apart. Line 20 sets the form length to 7 inches. After line 30 prints, line 40 sends a form feed advance the paper to the top of the next form. Line 50 then prints its message.

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