Tally Genicom 6600 manual Version 1 Buffered Formatting

Chapter 6 Version 1 Buffered Formatting

Version 1 Buffered Formatting

This section discusses only the Version 1 commands for buffered formatting. Version 2 commands are discussed on page 99.

Buffered Form Create

Version 1 Buffered Form creation and execution differs from Version 2 in that there is no Version 1 Execute command. Instead, all data sent after the Create Command is plugged into the data fields of the created form until a ^G is encountered. The Version 1 Buffered Form Create command is:

Command ^B^-<data>^]<execute data> ^G

Arguments
^B^-	Indicates the beginning of a buffered format
	sequence.
<data>	GPL commands and data to be stored as a
	Buffered Form. As with Version 2 Buffered Forms,
	the Version 1 Buffered Form <data> may contain
	data fields of the form ^[nnn.
^]	Indicates the end of the buffered format sequence.
	All characters following the ^] are inserted into the
	^[nnn data field until the printer sees ^G.

This command allows only one form to be stored in the forms buffer. For this reason, it does not require a form name.

Control Code Command Changes

The following control codes take on different functions when they are used in the data string that follows the ^] command:

^-	Fills the rest of the current data field with spaces if there are
	insufficient data characters to fill the current field. The entire data
	field is converted to spaces if this is the only input in the field.
^*	Fills the rest of the current data field with spaces if there are
	insufficient data characters to fill the current field. The entire data
	field is converted to spaces if this is the only input in the field. All
	remaining fields in the Buffered Form are also converted to
	spaces unless the fields occur within a Copy command. See
	“Buffered Form Copy” on page 106 more details.
^,	A form feed behaves the same as a line feed unless it is used
	within a Copy command. Refer to the Copy command section for
	more details.

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