Xerox 3270 manual

3270 Programmer’s Guide Function Selection via the Line Once a character has been defined as the ESC character, it cannot be printed or used as a normal character. However, it is not necessary to have an ESC character defined permanently. When the ESC character has served its purpose, it can be deleted. When you have defined an ESC character in the converter, the following facilities will be available to you: • Sending HEX codes (00 to FF) directly to the printer • Changing the settings of the converter • Sending special commands to the converter (e.g. to save the contents of the temporary memory in the permanent memory). When the converter receives the characters following the ESC character, it will use them for special purposes. Below you will find examples of FSL commands, where "%" is the defined ESC character : Escape Sequence Function %Y6,100% Set Function 6: Maximum Print Position (MPP) to 100 %Y8,04% Set Function 8, LU1 Language, to Belgian %Y61,1,1B,26,6C,32,58% Define user string 1 with the PCL command "print 2 copies" NOTE: In FSL mode, the notations ":" and ";" have special meanings in the FSL Functions 75 and 80. See D62071, the section "Overwriting the Translate Tables" for more information. - 11 -