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From: jlf@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Jack L Forester,???K,2933607,6526712)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Word-Up
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Date: 22 Nov 89 13:40:13 GMT
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From article <8679@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, by abc@cs.purdue.EDU (Rick Hunter):
> In article <4529@blake.acs.washington.edu>, themod@blake.acs.washington.edu (Chris Hinton) writes:
>> 
  [some stuff deleted...]
> 
> Funny you should mention this. When I first got a copy of this program
> I had the same problem. Except, I was using a Gemini10X. I could not get
> the thing to work with the printer unless I did some fancy formating
> with page length and width. Even then it was not guaranteed to work.
> 
> What did I end up doing? My brother coughed for a new printer that 
> is known to work with it. I could not determine exactly if the problem
> was in the software or my outdated printer. For all the trouble you are
> going through I would suggest buying a new printer. Oddly, I could
> get it to work with the Star NX-1000 at the store where I bought the
> program. Hope this helps. Has anyone else had this problem with the
> older Gemini printers?????
> 
> Alan Chan
> abc@arthur.cs.purdue.edu

That sounds a lot like the problem I was having when I first got Microsoft
Write.  I, too, am using an older Gemini 10X printer, but I worked around
the problem this way (I know these are two different programs, but they both
use GDOS so this might help).

1.  First I made sure I was using the FX80.SYS driver and that the printer
    setup (on the DA) was set to 960 dots per line.

2.  I patched the printer driver so that that the proper sized line feeds
    were sent to the printer.  This came about after I finally got something
    to be printed - there were gaps in the printed material.

Now anything that uses GDOS will print properly on my printer.  I don't
think I can legally post the modified driver here on the net, but I can
try to dig up the docs I wrote to explain how to patch the driver.  If there
is enough interest, I'll post them, otherwise, I'll email them.

Jack Forester, Jr.
West Virginia University
Department of Computer Science and other Imaginary Things.
That's jlf@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu to you!