jrg@hpda.UUCP (Jeff Glasson) (05/02/85)
I have just purchased a 1520 plotter for $49 at Toys R Us. I am trying to write some PROMAL functions to control the plotter. The problem I am having is that when I try to either change the character size or the pen color, the color always goes to black and the character size is always set to 80 chars per line. I have even tried to write the low-level I/O routines in assembly in case PROMAL does something wierd. The results are the same. I can print a file on the plotter just fine otherwise (I has to write a little ASCII to PETSCII program since PROMAL deals in real ASCII). The plotter works fine from BASIC (yuk!). My question is: Does BASIC do anything special with strings printed using PRINT# ? Jeff Glasson Hewlett-Packard ISO ucbvax!hpda!jrg