[LCP]Another printing issue

[Erik Mouw]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:28:30PM +0500, Francisco Hallo wrote:
> How do I send control characters to the printer?. My printer has the
> ASCII control code  SI  to select condensed mode, but sending
> ....
> prnt=open("/dev/lp1",O_WRONLY);
> .....
> write(prnt,"SI",2);
> .....
> 
> is not correct ,  on the other hand SI is not a valid  escape sequence,
> could any body  give me a hint?, I want to use some other control codes
> like performing 2/180-inch line feed advances as needed.

C allows you to put octal codes into a string. For example: "\061\060"
will print "10".


Erik

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