Tandy Port Ext.
04-Oct-94 00:35:24
Sb: #166163-Tandy Port Ext.
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Ash Wyllie 71545,1425
Ash,
On many printers, having a voltage on pin 14 will make the printer
double space text. What 'autofeed' means is 'add a carriage feed after every
line feed'.
A line feed advances the tractor one space, a carriage return moves the
print head to the left margin. Typically, you need to send both a LF and a CR
when you reach the end of a line…so the paper advances one line and the print
head moves left.
In the MS-DOS world, an end-of-line is a CR/LF pair. On the Amiga,
it's only a LF. However, most Amiga printer drivers will add the CR, so if you
have your printer set to do that (autfeed on)…you will get double spacing on
the paper.
Don