Hi

Please help!!!

I'm trying to print Epson printer control characters to an Epson Dot matrix
printer, using VB5, and the generic / text only driver.  I can print control
characters to the printer, using QBasic, and the LPrint command, but in VB,
the characters just go through as text, and not interpreted by the printer.

Also, in Windows 3.1 days, the generic text only driver had a wide carriage
option. The Generic Text Only driver no loner has it.

Thanks

Steven Green

How are you sending the codes exactly?  Are you using the Printer object?
Or are you sending the codes to LPT1 as if it were an open file.  (open
"lpt1:" for binary as #1)?
I think, although I haven't tried it, that the equivalent to:
LPRINT CHR$(27);CHR$(64)
is:
Dim codes
codes = CHR$(27) & CHR$(64)   ' or CHR$(&h1B) & CHR$(&h40)
open "LPT1:" for binary as #1
put #1, , codes
close #1
Mick