Re: configuring line printer
Quoting Sebastiaan (sebastia@ch.twi.tudelft.nl):
> I am trying to adapt text output to my Nec Pinwriter with MagicFilter. The
> manual from the printer tells me that the escape sequence 'ESC x0' will
> set a different font to print with. So, I made a filter file with a line:
>
> default cat \01bx0
>
> because the ASCII code for escape is 27 (0x1b). However, it does not
> work. When I change the escape code to \033, everything works fine. But,
> according to my ASCII table, 0x33 is the digit '3'. So why is this?
> I am also having difficulties with other escape sequences, like FS
> (0x1c) or SI (0x0f).
You're mixing together two ways of expressing characters: octal and
hex. For octal ESC, use \033, for hexadecimal use \x1b. The 0xff
construction is not used here.
Take a look at /etc/magicfilter/* for plenty of examples.
Cheers,
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