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ASA Printer Control Characters

The following table shows the functions of ASA printer control characters:

Control Character

Function

1 (one)

Prints the line at the top of a new page.

blank space

Prints the line on the next line of the current page (line feed).

0 (zero)

Prints the line two lines down on the current page (two line feeds).

- (hyphen)

Prints the line three lines down on the current page (three line feeds).

+ (plus)

Prints the line on the current line on the page (no line feed). This is useful for making bold text on a line printer, but has no effect on a laser printer.

For example, the following REPORT produces the report file USERREP. When USERREP is printed, each line of the report lists the user ID, menu key, and jump key for each user record in the extract file KEYUSERS:

REPORT GIVING(USERREP) USING(KEYUSERS)
       ((' &UIDXNAME' '&UIDXMKEY' '&UIDXJKEY'))