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From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: An Apple on my IBM
Message-ID: <1197@digi.lonestar.org>
Date: 30 Oct 90 04:53:47 GMT
References: <1668.272bda17@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Organization: DSC Communications, Plano Tx.
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In article <1668.272bda17@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> nardis@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:
>I am trying to hookup an Applewriter printer to a friends XT clone.
>[stuff deleted]
>Here is what I have done;
>
>Installed the following commands in the autoexec.bat file;
>	mode lpt1:=com1
>	mode com1:,9600,n,8,1

I think you are not using the mode command correctly.  Usually one needs to
use the "p" option with a printer:

	mode com1:,96,n,8,1,p

(It is not necessary to type "9600", "96" suffices.)-- 
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