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In article <APOULSEN.93Jan22225003@marinara.mit.edu> apoulsen@athena.mit.edu (Andy Poulsen) writes:
>i've got an NEC silentwriter model 95, which does both postscript 
>level 2 and pcl 5 (laserjet 3).  it comes with an autoswitching driver
>for dos/windows, but nothing for os2.  i called NEC and got the codes
>that are required for mode switching, and have been playing around with
>writing an "lpr" program that will autoswitch, but that only works for
>files that i've already got on disk.
>so my question is:  is it possible to write a program that could be
>attached say, to the laserjet 3 driver, which would intercept any job
>sent to the laserjet 3, then send the codes to switch to laserjet 3
>mode, wait about 15 seconds (for the printer to complete the mode
>switch), then print the file(s), and finally switch back to postscript
>mode?  this would be very convenient, and i would imagine there are
>others who could benefit from such a program....

It's already been done, actually.  Do a string search with "NEC" on
the file /pub/os2/00Index at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, and you'll find it.

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