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From: darren@cbmvax.commodore.com (Darren Greenwald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: "Fast" Mode with parallel.device under OS 2.0 ??
Message-ID: <20491@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 9 Apr 91 20:31:21 GMT
References: <1991Apr9.115525.2939@forwiss.uni-passau.de>
Reply-To: darren@cbmvax.commodore.com (Darren Greenwald)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Apr9.115525.2939@forwiss.uni-passau.de> hessmann@r2d2.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann) writes:
>Hi,
>
>For nearly one year, Valentin Pepelea writes:
>
>|parallel device for 2.0, and on a '030 Amiga you can now send out well over
>|100000 characters per second in its "fast" mode. Unfortunately this fast mode
>|depends on the printer to assert the BUSY signal fast enough. Since there is
>Fine, I *need* this "fast-mode".
>
>How can I select this mode??
>(via parallel.device or printer.device)
> 
>  hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de		hessmann@unipas.uucp

A quick code examination suggests setting the PARB_FASTMODE bit in io_ParFlags
when you open parallel.device ... see 2.0 devices/parallel.h