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Subject: Voluminous ASCII output from LaserWriter
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Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 21:38:50 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 17 21:38:50 1985
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From: Neal Holtz 

With a simple ascii terminal hooked to 9600 baud serial line of the Apple
LaserWriter, I executed the following (it prints 100 lines of 62 characters
on the terminal):

/lots 
  { {(abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\n) print flush}
    repeat
  } def

100 lots

There were quite a number of characters missing from the output --- perhaps
as high as 1 in 50.  They were missing from random places --- usually no more
than one per line.

Other tests have shown that the terminal has no problem receiving hundreds
of lines of this stuff without resorting to X-OFF/X-ON.  Therefore the
fault must lie with the LaserWriter.

I realize that this is not the primary intended purpose of the LaserWriter,
but still --- it probably shouldn't do that.