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In article <1992Oct31.100205.15906@atlantis.uucp> bugs@atlantis.uucp (Dan  
Berry) writes:
> John B. Lockhart (lockhart@eecom.gatech.edu) wrote:
> It seems to be a lack of proper driver software, not a lack of  
PostScript.
> For the DeskJet, get it off sonata.cc.purdue.edu -- they have the  
version that
> 	works with 3.0 correctly (I got it, but haven't compiled it yet).

The ImageWriter/DeskJet drivers have been hacks on Ghostscript, which was  
the start of this thread.  Please note that in his speech at NeXTWorld  
Expo, Steve Jobs promised more bundled dot matrix printer drivers in 3.0,  
and more bundled fax drivers.

> For fax, in which I've heard the CLASS2 "AT" commandset has only  
RECENTLY been
> 	set in stone, you're going to have to wait for the modem  
manufacturers
> 	to redo their ROMs or for software makers to make icky specific
> 	versions that only work with your single-brand modem ANYHOW.
> 
> One option is free.  The other will likely be free or cheap when the  
dust
> settles and someone gets around to it.  Don't forget that Release3 was  
rushed
> out the doors because people like yourself wanted it NOW.  Hold out for  
3.1 if
> you can.

Much more likely is because 3.0 was promised for Q2, in that same speech.   
If the beta program was better managed, it is quite likely that dates  
could have been met.  Only _three_ beta sites in the UK?  And ISDN support  
doesn't work in the UK (with far more ISDN capability in Scotland alone  
than in the entire USA), and isn't going to work for some considerable  
time.

Paul
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