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Creating Your Own Characters
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CHR$(27) CHR$(42) CHR$(l)
CHR$(43) CHR$(ll)
Escape
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n,
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CHR$(24) CHR$i(36) CHR$(90) CHR$(36) CHR$@O) CHR$(36)
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CHR$@O) CHR$(36) CHR$(24) CHR$(O) CHR!$(O)
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MS
Ml,
Ml
Figure 11-11. 'This is the complete command to send our bullet character to the
Radix printer.
18 'Downloads symbols.
2/a OPEN "LPTl:" AS #l : WIDTH #1,255
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FOR I = 1 TO
3
'Do three character downloads.
4g PRINT #l,CHR$(27) "*" CHR$(l) ; 'Begin char download.
59 READ
Nl$,N2
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PRINT #l,Nl$ CHR$(N2) ; 'Send char code, and
attribute.
79 FOR
M
= 1 TO 11 'Send 11 bytes of download per char.
8@ READ D
99 PRINT #l,CHR$(D) ;
199 NEXT M
lla NEXT I
129 CLOSE #l
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LPRINT
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DATA "+",11,24,36,9j'J,36,99,36,99,36,24,9,9
159 DATA "9",11,92,34,9,81,8,69,9,34,29,9,9
169 DATA "#",11,127,~,~,127,~,68,~,68,56,~,~
When you run this program, it looks like nothing happens.
That's OK. We'll see why in just a moment. Save this program.
We'll need it again shortly.
Printing Download Characters
You've now defined and sent three characters to the Radix.
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