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Article #1035Re: 7300 shift print escape sequence
From: Jim Webb
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1986 00:35
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1986 00:35
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> The Equivalent Escape Sequence for Shift-Print is shown on page C-4 > of the remote Access User's Manual as > > ESC P R > > It doesn't seem to work. > > How do I emulate shift print? If you are trying to dump the screen of a terminal connected to the phone or rs232 port, I think you are out of luck, as UNIX has no idea what's on it, at least at the kernel level. As you probably know, the console screen is memory mapped, so when you press the shift-print key, it wakes up a system daemon that reads this section of memory and formats it for an epson and sends this data to the lp spooler for printing. Now if it were Berkeley.... :-) -- Jim Webb ihnp4!houxm!hropus!jrw
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