Xerox 4213 manual Translation table structure, Special Table, User defined translation tables

XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE

The Special Table

The Special Table is a translation table that has been designed especially for users operating in an IBM 3274 coaxial connection environment. It can be selected using the Language command (selecting language G).

Note: The Special Table does not recognise control codes (i.e., hexadecimal values less than EBCDIC 40H) or the space character (EBCDIC 40H). These codes must be reassigned to a valid value in the table before they can be used.

Do not select the Special Table for systems using the ASCII encoding.

The Special Table provides 91 codes for symbols, plus the following predefined codes:

EBCDIC 4AH yields ASCII OCH (FF)

EBCDIC 5FH yields ASCII 15H (NL); may be used in place of (CR) and (LF) or line end.

EBCDIC 6AH yields ASCII 1BH (ESC)

EBCDIC 79H yields ASCII 20H (space)

User defined translation tables

A user defined code assignment table can be created and downloaded to the printer, where it remains available as an alternate language selection (language H in the Language command).

Translation table structure

A downloaded translation table, which is created with the

Character Reassignment command, has three parts:

·The table load initiator, which is the E+T,L part of the command. It signals to the printer that the data following it is a character table data.

·The table data record or records. This part of the command contains the actual code assignment data. The data may be sent as one long record, or as a series of records.

XEROX 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAMMER REFERENCE 2-109