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Re: LaserWriter II baud rate question

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From: Svante Lindahl
Date: Thu, 18 May 1989 10:59
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In Sun-Spots v7n290 henkel%nepjt@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu  (Chuck Henkel) writes:
> By the way, what happens if you set the printer to 38400 baud, and then
> find that your Sun can't talk to it? How do you reset the printer to the
> old baud rate? 

You write a small program that opens the line to the LW, sets the speed to
38400, and sends some PostScript code to the printer to set the speed back
to 19200 (or 9600 or whatever). If anyone needs it, I have such a program.

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From: Svante.Lindahl@front.se (Svante Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: LaserWriter II baud rate question
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