How to type in ASCII?

External Since: Jul 14, 2005 Posts: 7

Stupid question #2 of the week.

I'm trying to avoid writing a printer driver for a barcode label
printer. It responds to reasonable commands, and I want to embed a
command in a page that tells the printer to cut the paper.

It's <STX> o

STX, of course is ASCII 0x02.

I can't remember how to type it - I'm trying to do this as a footer in
a FileMaker form.

Any help would be appreciated.

Jolly

External Since: Jun 24, 2005 Posts: 9

"jollyprez" <nalex.DeleteThis@hand-off.com> writes:

> STX, of course is ASCII 0x02.
>
> I can't remember how to type it - I'm trying to do this as a footer in
> a FileMaker form.

No idea if there's a keystroke or not. But you could use "Edit/Special
Characters..." to bring up the Character Palette, and use that to select
and insert any character code you'd like.

Oh, assuming you're using Mac OS X, that is. No idea how you'd do that on
an older release.

sherm--