Re: EOF characters in XyWrite files

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Well, there is default 1A to toggle whether 1A is "respected" or not. So
you can always issue:

d 1A=1
and 1A (eof) will be ignored in what is sent to screen for displaying.


I seem to recall that there was also a command CAB that means "CAll
Binary" which
will open the file based on the directory file size, and hence include any
embedded

EOF characters..

Dale
http://dale.mixmox.com








----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Norman" 
To: ; 
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: EOF characters in XyWrite files


> At 01:44 PM 10/17/2006, Dale Schultz wrote:
>
> >So binary files can have as many EOF characters as one likes. Each
> >byte of the file
> >is simply a value between 0 and 255 and 26 can be treated just like
any other.

>
> Thanks for the precis, Dale. Question is: if a file has more than one
> EOF character, how, if at all, is a printer affected? A lot of
> variables: the machine itself, printer language its using, XY printer
> file and so on. In my case it may have affected only one of XY's many
> printer command alternatives. On the other had, as Patrica suggests,
> I might have just bumped the printer during the print run, jarred a
> cable lose and that was the problem.
>
> Michael Norman
>



Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx