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From: earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Serial printer drivers
Message-ID: <6710@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 18-Jul-87 19:55:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: dartvax.6710
Posted: Sat Jul 18 19:55:16 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jul-87 05:20:32 EDT
References: <1014@runx.ips.oz>
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Summary: yes, no

In article <1014@runx.ips.oz>, sce@runx.ips.oz (Simon Evans) writes:

> 	                         ...how hard is it to write a printer
> driver that simply does text streaming and recognises the lPrReset,
> lPrLineFeed, lPrLFSixth amd lPrPageEnd iPrDevCtl parameters?
> 
> 	Finally, is it possible to simply send ASCII out through one of
> the serial ports and ignore the printer manager ?

I have not attempted the first solution, but I assume from the dearth of 
any kind of software that does this that it is extremely difficult.

The second method is easy.  In fact, it's just like writing to a file.
I can mail you some example code, or, if there is enough interest, post
it.


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