Date: 12-01-86 (00:19)              Number: 948                               
  To: SYD WEEDON                    Refer#: 925                               
From: JOHN BARNES                   Recv'd: YES                               
Subj: COMMENT                       Sec'ty: PUBLIC MESSAGE                    
                                                                              
Syd, I am uploading some files to help you and other people who use           
Proprinters, Epson FX-series printers, and the IBM Graphics printer.          
The files are PTRCRIB.TXT, which summarizes the base set of control           
codes for these printers, and the extended control codes for the Epson        
FX printers and the IBM Proprinter, and IBMCRIB.TXT, FXCRIB.TXT, and          
PRPCRIB.TXT which summarize the printable characters and all the control      
codes for a particular printer.  If I haven't already uploaded them, I        
will also include PRNTMATH.DAT, which lets an Epson FX printer print the      
full upper- and lowercase Greek character set, as well as useful              
mathematical symbols, and PRNTIBM.DAT, which lets an EPSON FX printer         
print the IBM Graphics character set.  To use these last two files, just      
"COPY" the file to the printer.                                               

Warning:

        John really knows what he's doing and these data files contain
control codes to print them.  If you try to print them with a word
processor, you might get all kinds of crazy stuff.  I started with printing
them from Wordstar and my printer went nuts.  The way to print them is to
us the copy command:

    copy a:filename.ext lpt1: 

     The Proprinter text has Proprinter controls and the FX text has FX
controls.  If you are going to print the FX file on a Proprinter, you need
to change the escape sequences which appear at the beginning of the
sections.  The virtue of printing them in the way John has set them up is
that he has drawn some little charts of the extended character sets and
they are nice, but sent through a word processor, they might give your
printer a nervous breakdown.

                                              Syd Weedon