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Article #4931printer driver query
From: John Davis, chem dept, UoC NZ
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 1990 06:23
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 1990 06:23
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In the Amiga owners manual, tucked away in one of the many appendices, is a list of ALL the Ansi commands .. which the printer device ( prt: ) is meant to support. Recently, I had a query from somebody who'd been trying to use the listed set page length and set perforation skip commands to no avail - I've tried them myself, and they don't seem to work ( in fact LOTS of the listed commands do nothing ), both with the 1.3 EpsonX driver, and the 1.3 NEC_pinwriter driver. I was wondering if anyone knew exactly _which_ commands are supported by the printer drivers supplied with WB1.3?? ( lack of the pagelen command means you can't get decently paginated output without resorting to sending thru a filter prog first - I thought the whole idea of the printer handler was to make that uneccesary ? ) ----------------------------------------------------------- | o John Davis - CHEM194@canterbury.ac.nz o | | o (Depart)mental Programmer,Chemistry Department o | | o University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand o | | o o | | o co-sysop AmigaINFO BBS,1200/2400 baud CCITT, o | | o 24 hours a day, ph NZ +3-3371-531 o |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!virtue!canterbury.ac.nz!chem194 From: chem194@canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis, chem dept, UoC NZ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: printer driver query Summary: problems with sending ansi commands to Prt: Keywords: ANSI printers Message-ID: <1990Aug20.153653.8960@canterbury.ac.nz> Date: 20 Aug 90 06:23:23 GMT Reply-To: chem194@canterbury.ac.nz Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.tech Organization: University of Canterbury Lines: 24