[net.unix] Datasouth DS-220 Loadable Font

tanner@ki4pv.UUCP (Tanner Andrews) (05/17/86)

According to the (preliminary) manual I have for the beast, a
datasouth DS-220 is supposed to be able to have alternative character
set down-loaded into it, which character set will be stored in
non-volitile ram.

No instructions on use of this feature are given in the version of
the manual which I have.  Has anyone actually found this feature to
exist, and how to use it?  I would appreciate a _mail_ reply from
anyone who can explain the use of this feature.

I also wonder if anyone has hacked a version of "col" that will make
a point of _not_ losing some set of escape sequences that do
wonderful things on their printer.  If not, I may wind up hacking a
special version that will recognise and pass through a set of escape
sequences to be defined by a table.  If no one else has done it, and
I wind up doing it (after the 7129 other things on the list), I'll
post any results to mod.sources.
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<std dsclm, copies upon request>	   Tanner Andrews