189. Master/Compact/ARC printer ignore character ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On the Master/Compact, if you configure the machine to send LFs to the printer with the command *CONFIGURE IGNORE, the previous ignore character is stored, though not active. If this previous character is 10 for example, some applications like InterWord will fail to send LFs because they read the character value with OSBYTE &F6, but don't check to see it the character is active with OSBYTE &B6. I had to use the command *FX6,0 in the !BOOT file to overcome this, until I realised what the root cause was. You can avoid this problem by typing the following commands, followed by ... *CO. IGNORE 0 (Set ignore character to zero) *CO. IGNORE (Deactivate ignore character) On the Archimedes, typing *CO. IGNORE also sets the character to zero, which is sensible, but the !Configure utility on the Applications-1 disc does allow you to leave the character set to 10, though deactivated. If using this utility, I advise setting the ignore character value to zero as well as toggling the little asterisk off. The PC emulator (and 512 board) sends LFs anyway, so I advise against setting auto linefeeds on the printer. I curse the day Acorn chose *FX6,10 as the default on the model B; Think of all the hassle it has caused over the years!