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From: tim@efi.com (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,aus.mac
Subject: Re: Writing a Printer/Device Driver. - Help
Message-ID: <1990Aug1.193047.1928@efi.com>
Date: 1 Aug 90 19:30:47 GMT
References: <10418@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Organization: Electronics For Imaging, Inc.
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In article <10418@wehi.dn.mu.oz> JON@wehi.dn.mu.oz (Jon Eaves) writes:
>	I have been asked to write a device driver for a new printing task.
>I am not sure what is involved but this is what I gather.
>
>1)  The device will be available from the chooser.
>2)  When 'Print' is chosen from any application the output will be 
>    spooled to a shared folder on a TOPS network.  This output is
>    picked up by a daemon style process and acted upon.
>
>The daemon is not my problem, so all I need to know is what is involved with
>writing the device driver (if that is the correct term).
>Is there any skeleton code available?
>
>I'd appreciate ANY comments because this whole style of programming is new
>to me.

There is a newly released (but apparently old) document called "Learning
to Drive" on AppleLink.  This is the long-awaited Apple manual on writing
print drivers for the Mac.  I believe it is under

Developer Services
	Mac Developer Technical Support
		Interim Documentation
			Learning to Drive

Thanks to Luke at MacDTS for pointing this out to me (and for his other
help on a related topic).