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From: Pete Jewell <pete@example.compulink.co.uk>
Subject: Re: A question about kdump
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:01:22 +0100
Organization: Example Systems Ltd
Message-ID: <394E51E2.2B20A714@example.compulink.co.uk>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Frank da Cruz wrote:
>
> 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.
Thanks for the reply Frank - I kind of expected that, but thought it
best to ask. The transparent printing function is already used to print
out the receipt details, I guess we're just going to have to implement
specific printing where required in the application, instead of the easy
way of using Ctrl-PrtScn for printing enquiry screens :-)
--
Pete Jewell
Example Systems Ltd.
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