Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!nosun!qiclab!leonard From: leonard@qiclab.uucp (Leonard Erickson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: print slave must die! Message-ID: <1990Jul30.062116.18933@qiclab.uucp> Date: 30 Jul 90 06:21:16 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: QIC Laboratories/SCN Research of Tigard Oregon Lines: 20 Here's a quick *hardware* solution to the "no printer hang". Get a male DB-25 connector. Insulation displacement type works well for this. Run a piece of hookup wire from pin 1 to pin 10. Snap on the back of the connector. Now plug it into the printer port. You now have the worlds fastest printer. :-) In case you are curious, what you've just done is connect the STROBE line to the READY line. So as soon as the computer asserts STROBE [data ready for printer] it gets READY [printer ready for more data] We've had to use this to get a few machines to be able to rediirect PrtScr to a network printer. -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] "Oregon Guild Gold Card -- don't leave home without it!"