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Re: Specifying a line feed [message #5638 is a reply to message #5503]

Thu, 18 January 1996 00:00

hahn
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Registered: November 1993

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mbrown@olie.wvitcoe.wvnet.edu (Myron Brown) wrote:

> Can someone tell me how to print a linefeed character
> using PRINTF in IDL?

PrintF automatically generates a linefeed.

> I'm trying to print out text to my
> HP, but since the buffer doesn't get full, I have to hit
> the button on the printer to get the printout. Thanks.

I guess you need a form feed! Formfeed on a ASCII
printer is 00001100 binary, decimal 12, so you may
add

PrintF, String(12B)

after your last PrintF statement.
> Myron.

> -----------------------------
> Myron Brown
> mbrown@olie.wvitcoe.wvnet.edu

Norbert Hahn

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		Specifying a line feed By: mbrown on Wed, 17 January 1996 00:00
		Re: Specifying a line feed By: hahn on Thu, 18 January 1996 00:00
		Re: Specifying a line feed By: M.W.Gardner on Thu, 18 January 1996 00:00

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