Xerox FS 5250 IPC Defining a Temporary Escape Character, Removing Temporary Escape Character, ??%

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Xerox FS 5250, User’s Guide

8.3. Defining a Temporary Escape Character

No escape character is defined when you receive the printer. If you wish to change the settings of the printer from the host system, you will have to define the escape character. See below how to define "%" as the tem porary escape character.

NOTE:

The characters "," ";" and ":" must never be used as escape characters, as they are used as separators in escape sequences and will be ig- nored by the printer.

The same applies to 0-9, A-F, a-f and K,S,T,X,Y,Z, simple quote ('), & and ?. These must not be used.

CAUTION!

Avoid using your national characters as ESC characters.

The following EBCDIC HEX codes have been defined as national language characters and must not be used as ESC characters

4A 4C 4F 5A 5B 5F 6A 79 7B 7C 7F A1 C0 D0 E0

&&??%

Defining a temporary escape character.

The five characters shown should be sent to the printer from the host system. The escape character is not defined permanently. When the converter is turned off, it will be lost. See "Defining a Permanent Escape Character" for infor mation on the definition of a permanent escape character.

8.4. Removing Temporary Escape Character

If you wish to remove the temporary escape character so that it may be used as a printable character , you can define it as a blank as shown below.

&&??<blank>

Removing the temporary escape character.

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