Q & A

Increasing the Printer Buffer in I-QU PLUS-1

Question

Is there a way to increase the size of the printer buffer in I-QU? Right now it is only 132 characters and I would like to increase that value.

Answer

The display output is limited to 132 characters before line wrap occurs; however, the internal I-QU PLUS-1 print buffer is the same size as the RDA. Using the plus (+) character on the DISPLAY, EDIT, TRIMDISP and TRIMEDIT commands allows you to stage into the $PBUFF variable. You may then set this in the RDA and WRITE it to a SEQ file and @SYM the output. Here is a simple example:

@asg,up temp.
@iqu
Def f temp seq 200,1
Disp '1234567890123456789012345678901234567890' +
Disp '1234567890123456789012345678901234567890' +
Disp '1234567890123456789012345678901234567890' +
Rda (1,200) = $pbuff
Open temp output seq
Write temp
Write temp
Write temp
Close temp
Csf x '@sym,u temp.,,pr'