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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 03:26:20 EST
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- From: Dorothy Day <DAY@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
- Subject: RE: Silly Problem?
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- >Since installing Windows, and the NEC to use with Ami etc, I find I get bad
- > printout with NB!
- >
- >Is this just some kind of silly coincidence?
- >
- >Judy Evans
- >jae2@uk.ac.york
-
- No, it means that Windows and NB are BOTH performing character
- substitutions to tell your printer how to print when its "ASCII" codes
- don't correspond completely to the IBM "ASCII" codes (a common
- situation for above-127).
-
- After installing Windows, I found that a simple u" (u-umlaut), which
- used to print nicely, came out on my Toshiba 321SL as a box-graphic
- corner character, the exactly right character for the code number NB
- was sending instead of ASCII 129, the IBM numbering for the u".
- Windows (the right hand) doesn't know what NB (the left hand) is
- doing...
-
- The obvious solution is to go into the printer table for your printer
- and disable the substitution (SU:) sections by putting a semicolon at the
- beginning of each line. If you then get problems with selected
- characters, you can go back in and remove the semicolon.
-
- Dorothy Day, Indiana University
- Bitnet: DAY@IUBACS
- Internet: day@ucs.indiana.edu
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