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From: flinton@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Problems hooking parallel printer to my 7300 (repost)
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.140410.39785@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 19:04:10 GMT
References: <2171@wet.UUCP>
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In article <2171@wet.UUCP>, editor@wet.UUCP (Eric Swanson) describes his
printer problems:
> 
>   this`is`a`testMJthis`is`only`a`testMJthis`is`line`threeMJML
> 
> and it only shows that after I take it off-line ...

Looks like your printer needs a different printer driver -- instead of the
<CR> <LF> it seems to want to be seeing (^M ^J in control characters) its
getting just  M  and  J  (text characters) with never a line-feed or a 
carriage-return to get it to flush its own buffer (i.e.,  to print) and
reposition its head for a new line.  ... Hope this is on the mark.

-- Fred

Fred E.J. Linton  Wesleyan U. Math. Dept.  649 Sci. Tower  Middletown, CT 06457
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