Tally Genicom 6600 manual Buffered/Defined Forms, Buffered Forms, Data Fields

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Buffered Forms

Code V allows users to store commands and data in printer memory. The data stored in memory may be named and called up for use any time. Data stored in memory this way is called a buffered form. The buffered form can consist of any data and commands sent to the printer.

The Graphics Processing Language emulates both Version 1 and Version 2 of the Code V Buffered Formatting Language. Version 2 buffered formatting offers more features than Version 1 and should be used whenever possible instead. See “Version 1 Buffered Formatting” on page 116.

The printer uses a Heap Buffer space to store Buffered Forms and to process Code V data. Each Buffered Form takes up a portion of the available Heap Buffer space. The amount of work space memory available at any given time may be determined by executing the Buffered Forms List Command, see page 105.

Data Fields

The printer allows you to store the basic format for an entire form and then later send only the data that changes from one form to another. The postion in each form where this data is inserted is called a data field. A field data accomplishes two purposes.

1.It specifies the number of data bytes.

2.By its physical location in the buffered form, the data field specifies where its bytes should be placed. A data field is identified by ^[nnn.

^[ Identifies the beginning of the data field.

nnnThe number of bytes in each field. This ranges from 001 to 999. One byte of data represents a single character, such as 6 or r. the actual number of bytes inserted into each field may be less than the specified maximum, but how the unused spaces are treated depends upon which control code is used as input to the buffered data field.

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