Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site godot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!godot!gary From: gary@godot.UUCP (Gary Sabot) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: printer driver Message-ID: <612@godot.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 16:52:00 EST Article-I.D.: godot.612 Posted: Wed Dec 12 16:52:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 03:58:05 EST Distribution: net Organization: Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA Lines: 15 Has anyone out there written a device driver that would allow printed output (LPT1:) to be directed to a serial printer AND would then pace the output with the ETX/ACK protocol? I have a Diablo 1620 printer hooked up to the serial port of my compaq, and it works fine with Wordstar at 1200 baud because I can make Worstar use the ETX/ACK protocol. I'd like to be able to use DOS 2.0's print spooler, but when I redirect parallel output to the printer, the printer buffer overflows. This printer won't use any protocol other than ETX/ACK. When I bought new ROM's that would add XON/XOFF protocol, and also a hardwired protocol using DTR, Wordstar stopped printing correctly.