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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: A question about kdump
Date: 19 Jun 2000 16:05:44 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <394E3B06.3BAAAA77@example.compulink.co.uk>,
Pete Jewell <pete@example.compulink.co.uk> wrote:
: I've been playing about with SET DUMP and KDUMP in an attempt to use
: Ctrl-PrtScn for sending the current screen display to an attached till
: receipt printer.
:
: It works, apart from the extended characters on screen, which are being
: converted to symbols & numbers.
:
: Is there any way of telling KDUMP how to handle the screen contents, so
: that it strips the non 7-bit characters out? Or am I barking up the
: wrong tree?
:
Sorry, wrong tree. Screen dumping is intended for a setup in which the
screen and the printer use the same character set.
There are an awful lot of cheap printers out there that support the regular
PC code page (CP437). This way you get all those line- and box-drawing
characters intact on your printer.
The other approach is called transparent printing, in which the host sends
material direct to the PC's attached printer. In this case, the host
application can convert the material to be printed appropriately for the
printer.
If you have Windows rather than DOS, there might be other alternatives.
- Frank