Re: POS. Cash Register on AS400. Updated and more Questions. -- MIDRANGE-L


On 02/11/2006, at 7:05 AM, Gary Segal wrote:

   still need some more help. I am almost there. I am able to print to
   Receipt printer from AS400, but  still can not open cash drawer.

   I have spoke to Wasp(Cash drawer manufacturer). They told me:

"ESC P should open the cash drawer. In hexadecimal this is 1B70and in

   decimal it is 27112"

   I tried to put in spool file as hex. No luck


With ASCII Transparency?

Also spoke to IBM(Client Access support team). They said that therein noway to trigger "ESC P" in Client access accept by putting it inWSCST(WorkStation Customizing Object), but they no longer support ittherefore they
   can not let me know how to do it.
Does anyone has any knowledge what syntaxes do I have to put in myWSCST
   object and where? Text file is pretty big. Please see attached.

It seems to me IBM support have given you an acceptable pointer to thesolution. The caveat is that I've never tried this particular supportusing a WSCST however ...

A look through the WSCST source you sent shows two interesting tags:INITPRT and :RESETPRT


A cursory glance through the WSCST Programming Reference says:

"The INITPRT (initialize printer) tag defines the ASCII controlsequence for the initialize printer function for an ASCII printer. Thehost print transform function uses the INITPRT tag at the beginning ofeach print job."

and

"The RESETPRT (reset printer) tag defines the ASCII control sequencefor the reset printer function for an ASCII printer. The RESETPRT tagis used by the host print transform at the end of each print job."

Because printing a receipt is a "print job" (presuming each receipt isa separate spooled file) it would seem reasonable that you could modifyeither of these tags to include the ESC P incantation. Your onlydecision is whether to open the drawer before printing the receipt(i.e. :INITPRT) or after (:RESETPRT).

The current data for these tags already includes the Escape character.I'm fairly sure that Escape codes can be strung together so you onlyneed to add the 70 to the end of the current data. Easy enough to tryit both with and without the second 1B and see what happens.



Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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