Re: How can I printing non-printable chars in 4GL?

David Williams <djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk> wrote in article <ylpp1LAXOPL2EwNl@smooth1.demon.co.uk>... ... > > Nope we have the same problem with Oki printers. Use another printer!! > > David Williams ... David, Please explain: Do you have problems with the Okidata printers that support barcode "fonts" or just Okidata's in general? We are planning to buy Okidata 520 printers (The 320s don't have barcode fonts) to push most of the work down to the printer. I believe I can send two or three ESC sequences and the "data" to get my barcode. It is not the "printer" that I have problems with...it can print graphics if I send the bytes to it. My problem is with the 4GL handling of strings. Because 4GL will not let me "print" an array of bytes (cuz it just might be a blob!). I know 4GL is not C, but this limitation forces "external" code, which is always harder to maintain or fix... Steve