EM3270 Manual
EM3270 Emulation Description
Tandem EM3270 Manual—110332 A-7
IBM Host to Tandem SCS LU Type 1 Printer
Translation
Table A-9 lists the SCS printer controls, the ASCII codes that initiate these controls, and
the results of these controls in the EM3270 emulator.
Table A-9. SCS Printer Controls (page 1 of 3)
Printer Control
ASCII
Code
(Hex) EM3270 Emulator Result
Backspace (BS) 08 Moves the print position to the left one position. When the
print position is at column 1, BS is ignored. The left margin
setting is ignored.
Bell (BEL) 07 Ignored.
Carriage Return
(CR)
0D Moves the print position to the left margin of the current
line.
Enable Presentation
(ENP)
9D Ignored.
Form Feed (FF) 0C Moves the print position to the left margin on the top line of
the next page.
Graphics Escape
(GE)
97 The GE order is ignored and the graphic that follows the
order is printed normally.
Horizontal Tab
(HT)
09 Moves the print position to the next tab stop to the right.
When no tab stop has been set to the right of the current
print position, HT performs a space function.
Inhibit Presentation
(INP)
84 Ignored.
Interchange (IRS) 1E Performs a new line function. (Record Separator.)
Line Feed (LF) 0A Moves the print position down to the same print position on
the next line.
New Line (NL) 85 Performs a CR function and an LF function.
Set Attribute (SA) 88 The SA order and the two attribute characters that follow SA
are ignored.
Set Horizontal
Format (SHF)
8B41 Sets the horizontal format. The SHF string is:
SHF (cnt) (MPP) (LM) (RM) (T1) ... (Tn)
(cnt) is a byte that contains the number of bytes in the string
including the count byte.
(MPP) is a byte that contains the number of print positions
per line. The default value is the line width of the physical
device.
(LM) is a byte that contains the number of the first print
position on a line. The value must be less than or equal to
the value of MPP. The default value is 1.