Need Help!- Hardinge Indexer Macro

[Terabithia]

Currently the company I work with is programming a series of DPRINT commands in the main program to index a Hardinge 5C indexer on the machine, via the RS232 interface. I want to change this so we can use a macro to do the work, and call the macro via an m-code. The machine is setup to use M250 for an indexer subprogram already.

Code I have tried is as follows, called by M250 A? from the main program.

%
O9250 (HARDINGE INDEXER MACRO)
POPEN
G4 X.1
DPRNT[BS000.000]
G4 X.1
DPRNT[BF250.000]
G4 X.1
DPRNT[BB]
G4 X.1
DPRNT[BS#1[33]]
DPRNT[BB]
G4 X2.0
PCLOS
M99
%

The indexer errors out with a format error on the "DPRNT[BS#1[33]]" line.

I am told this indexer will only work in incremental, is that true? My goal would be to pass an absolute angle to the indexer via the m-code and not have to track the current index position.

Any help is much appreciated.

[norbert.barnard]

have you tried M250 A3 (A = tool number you want)

[gwarble]

i think you need spaces:

DPRNT[BS #1 [33]]

to print an actual space you need to use asterisk * but a space in the code seperates text from variables i think