rjk@mrstve.UUCP (Richard Kuhns) (05/21/86)
I'm having a (rather severe) problem with dBase III on the 3b1, and I would greatly appreciate any help/hints/suggestions (other than scrapping dBase III, which we intend to do in the future anyhow). We have a large application which was originally written in dBase II. Thru the use of a lex script I wrote, and a little hand editting, I managed to get it running under dBase III. HOWEVER, one of the tricks it depends on is being able to send data straight to a printer attached to the terminal. This doesn't sound too bad -- just send the correct escape sequence to the terminal, right? Wrong. Whenever I try to send an ESC to the terminal, all I get is `?', as follows: . . ? chr(27) ? . Using chr() with printable characters works just fine. Also, sending the escape sequences from a C program works, so I assume I have the terminal and printer connected correctly. I've also tried . store chr(27) to esc_char and then printing esc_char, but I get the same results. Can anyone help? We need to get this application running as soon as possible. I'm going to re-write it in C using Informix (tm) as the DBM, but that will take a little while. If anyone is interested in `watch-fors' for dBase III on the 3b1, drop me a note. I've got a million of 'em... TIA -- Rich Kuhns {ihnp4, decvax, etc...}!pur-ee!pur-phy!mrstve!rjk