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From: bjoern@drdhh.hanse.de (Bjoern Kriews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: 'GDOS printer drivers'
Message-ID: <3095.05.91@drdhh.hanse.de>
Date: 7 May 91 19:20:50 GMT
References: <1991May2.133527.5895@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Organization: Digital Island
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> Whilst on the subject of printer drivers in general, could someone post
> details of the 'printer.sys' file most commonly found referred to in the 'assign.sys' with driver ID 21 ? I have a printer which emulates an Epson, but most

printer.sys is a program. VDI-Drivers are programs that are loaded upon
open_workstation and called as a function dispatcher to draw graphic
primitives. They are neither configuration-files nor just hardcopy drivers.

Bjoern


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