Microsoft KB Archive/23448

Multiplan: Print Options Setup String Not Reinitialized PSS ID Number: Q23448 Article last modified on 04-12-1991 PSS database name: D_MPlan

3.00 3.01 3.02 3.04

MS-DOS

Summary:

The Print Options setup string is not reinitialized upon overwriting what is currently in that field. To duplicate this on an Epson FX, print a small portion of a spreadsheet and note the print size. Next, go into Print Options and type in the escape sequence for a Master Reset and Condensed Print, which looks like [@O (caret, left bracket, @, caret, and uppercase O). Print the spreadsheet again and note the change in the print size. If you go back into Print Options and remove the ^O, you should be able to get back to the default print size again because the printer is doing a Master Reset of the defaults (but you can’t). Go into Print Options and put in two spaces at the end of the ^[@ and print the spreadsheet once more. The print size is now back to the default.

This process ensures that the length of the changed escape sequence is greater than or equal to the length of the original string. If not, make sure you pad it with reset codes up to the length of the original string as demonstrated above ([@[@ will suffice here).

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Multiplan versions 3.0x.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.