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From: shawn@marilyn.UUCP (Shawn P. Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Help Connecting Imagewriter I to IBM
Message-ID: <43@marilyn.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 90 23:23:23 GMT
References: <1990May29.201234.20539@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: shawn@marilyn.UUCP (Shawn P. Stanley)
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In article <1990May29.201234.20539@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova) writes:
>It's hooked up to the COM1 serial port, which works fine with the modem (I'm
>using a generic 25-25 pin RS232 cable).  The IBM responds with 
>"Write Fault error writing device COM1".

You have to do more than hook it up to the serial port.  I don't use a serial
printer on my 386 system, but if I remember correctly, you have to redirect
the output of PRN (or LPT1) to the serial port.  I imagine this supplies the
appropriate software connection at the interrupt-vector level.
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