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From: barrey@ka.excelan.com (Barrey Jewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Help Connecting Imagewriter I to IBM
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Date: 8 Jun 90 18:12:46 GMT
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In article <43@marilyn.UUCP> shawn@marilyn.UUCP (Shawn P. Stanley) writes:
>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.
>--
>Shawn P. Stanley         shawn@marilyn.marilyn.mn.org
>bungia!marilyn!shawn     {rosevax,crash}!orbit!marilyn!shawn

The commands are as such:

MODE COM1:96,n,8,1,p
MODE COM1=LPT1:

If you need more help with the cable or switch settings, let me know..

Barrey

barrey@novell.COM