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From: xdaa374@ut-emx.UUCP (William T. Douglass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Printing from SoftPC
Keywords: SoftPC, printing, LaserWriter, Epson FX-80
Message-ID: <30549@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 90 21:21:45 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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I am having printing difficulties when running a dBase IV run-time app
from a Mac IIx using SoftPC.  I'd appreciate any comments and/or suggestions
others may have.

Specifically, the DOS program expects an Epson-compatible printer hooked
to its parallel port.  I cannot change this.

SoftPC is configured to emulate an Epson FX-80, and route the printed
output to a LocalTalk LaserWriter.  All works well except that the
output will always wrap-around at column 80.  The is not acceptable
because the PC program expects a wode-carriage printer in compressed
print mode, and assumes about 180-character per line.

I have tried many variations of printing, including using legal-size
paper, horizontal instead of vertical orientation, and reduced print
size (output is reduced, but still wraps at column 80, about 1/3 the way
across the page).  I have also gotten similar results using an Apple
ImageWriter in place of the LaserWriter.

Do you know of a way to convince SoftPC to allow longer than 80-character
lines?  I am at my wits end here.  We do not have a DOS system to use, so I
need to solve this problem.

The developer of the PC program has verified that the line wrap problem
does not occur on a true-blue system w/ an Epson FX-286 printer, so I am
focusing in on SoftPC as the problem here.  Any feedback will be
greately appreciated.

Thx.

-- 
Bill Douglass, TCADA

"I dreamed I was to take a test,
 in a Dairy Queen, on another planet."      L. Anderson