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Re: NEC_Pinwriter causes GURUs

#399
From: Christian Balzer
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1989 13:44
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In article <7295@ecsvax.UUCP>, utoddl@ecsvax.UUCP (Todd M. Lewis) writes...
> 
>Hello, net.

Hello, Todd. :-)

>    I am getting consistent gurus with the NEC_Pinwriter driver in
>density 7 with integer scaling on graphic output.  Could some kind
>soul out there give that a try and let me know if you get similar
>results.  This has happened with every program I've tried, but I 
>would still like a second opinion.  With any lower density setting
>or with fractional scaling the  problem doesn't show up.

Sorry, while I'm famous for crashing any kind of software, I couldn't
reproduce your bug. Neither could anyone else from the Software Brewery
(yes, the NEC printers are quite popular over here).
We tried this on A2620 equipped systems, A2000, A1000, A500, to no
avail. (Now what? Am I getting depressed for not getting Gurus? :-)
I printed at various degrees of scaling, with sometimes very tiny
results (heh, hand me that lens, will ya?) but no Gurus.
While I have many gripes with the current implementation of the
printer.device and the NEC driver, this isn't one of 'em.

To make sure we talk about the same sucker, heres a little insight into
my ever growing HD park:

Directory "devs:printers" on Thursday 13-Jul-89
..
Nec_Pinwriter               6732 ----rw-d 06-Aug-88 17:39:31
..

Hope you find the reason for that strange behaviour, wherever it may
be.

Regards,

- <CB>

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From: balzer@frambo.dec.com (Christian Balzer)
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Subject: Re: NEC_Pinwriter causes GURUs
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Date: 14 Jul 89 13:44:06 GMT
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