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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Super Serial Card drivers
Message-ID: <43779@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 90 00:33:19 GMT
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In article <HZ0$D}#@rpi.edu> mvk@pawl.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent) writes:
>
>     I'm looking for a GS/OS driver for the Super Serial Card.  I upgraded
>to a GS from a II+, so I have the old cable.  My Apple dealer wants $30 for
>one with the proper connections.  I can print just fine from ProDOS 8, but
>GS/OS keeps insisting that I use the printer port.  I figure that with a
>driver, the Control Panel might accept my configuration.  Does such a 
>beastie exist?  Is it public domain?  Can someone email one to me or post
>it to comp.binaries.apple2?
>
>Michael Kent
>mvk@pawl.rpi.edu

Personally, I think the $30 will save you a lot of headaches.  But if you
insist:

First, you don't want a "GS/OS driver".  You want a "Print Manager port driver."
You don't care if GS/OS can talk to the printer or not, you care if the
currently selected printer driver can.  We have three non-network port drivers
on the System Software:  PRINTER, MODEM and PARALLEL.CARD.

I actually believe that PARALLEL.CARD will print, albeit slowly, to the
Super Serial Card.  You should try it.  You might have to switch slot 2 to
"Your card" so it doesn't find the Pascal protocol bytes in the modem port
firmware and use them, but I'm not sure about either.

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