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Article #81Re: Sending special characters to serial connected LaserWriter
From: Vidiot
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 05:37
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 05:37
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In article <28OCT199212320113@comb1.comb.umd.edu> jeffc@comb1.comb.umd.edu (Jeff Clowser; IRG) writes:
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<uh, I happen to have a Personal Laserwriter NT, configured as a serial printer,
<9600bd,8,N,1, XON/XOFF, binary postscript, so I know it works. In fact, that
<is one of the default settings for this printer. It shows how to set it up
<(more or less) in the appendices of the printer manual.
As someone else points out, this mode makes you lose the ^T and ^D functions
of the printer. The ^D function is a must for telling the printer end-of-job.
It comes is very handy when killing a job.
I therefore prefer hex encoded data, not real binary. Too dangerous.
<BTW - There is no such thing as a parallel port on a PLW NT...
The LaserWriter II NT doesn't have one either. :-(
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!uwm.edu!daffy!uwvax!astroatc!vidiot!brown From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.periphs.printers,comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Sending special characters to serial connected LaserWriter Message-ID: <4366@vidiot.UUCP> Date: 30 Oct 92 05:37:25 GMT Article-I.D.: vidiot.4366 References: <1992Oct26.202733.5318@island.COM> <4353@vidiot.UUCP> <28OCT199212320113@comb1.comb.umd.edu> Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) Organization: Vidiot's Hangout Lines: 21