CognitiveTPG DLXi User Manual
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S T O R I N G D A T A I N T H E P R I N T E R M E M O R Y
“prompt”
ASCII text that the printer sends to
the port selected with the
VARIABLE
TERMINAL
command when ready to
receive data for the defined variable.
Enclose the prompt text with
quotation marks ("). If no prompt is
desired, enter two quotation marks
("") with no characters between them.
To include quotation marks within
the prompt, precede the internal
quotation mark with a backslash (\).
Use two consecutive backslashes (\\)
to include a backslash within the
prompt.
“initial”
Starting value for the defined
variable. Enclose the starting value
with quotation marks (") as described
for "prompt" above.
Comments
Replacing a fixed value in a printer command with a
variable tells the printer to plot the label element
using data entered or recalled at print time, rather
than data written in the label format when it was
programmed.
When using a variable name within a label format,
you must enclose it with the delimiter character
defined by the
command
See also
, VARIABLE
TERMINAL
Example
The following command defines a dynamic variable
called customer, with a maximum length of 20,
alphabetic type, no alignment, no initial value:
DEFINE_VAR 0 customer 20 A N "Enter customer:"
""
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