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From: SASDDI@vm.sas.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: printing via the serial port
Message-ID: <91136.142619SASDDI@vm.sas.com>
Date: 16 May 91 18:26:19 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
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I wonder if some kind soul might help me with this; I'm rather new to
this.

I have a terminal (Control Concepts 3276, emulating the IBM terminal
of the same model) to which I have attached an Epson RX-80 printer
via a serial card (don't remember what kind).  Works great.

Now I have a PC (Leading Edge D) sitting beside it.  I would like to
hook the printer to an A/B switch so I can use it from the PC sometimes
and from the terminal othertimes.  But as far as I know (which obviously
isn't very far) a printer is expected to be hooked to a PC via the
parallel port.

Is there some way I can hook my printer to the serial port, and somehow
tell the PC and all the software on it that that's where it is?  (By
installing(writing!? :-( ) a device driver maybe?)  I don't think (but
I'm not 100% sure -of anything!-) that you can use the parallel port on
the printer with the serial card plugged in.  And it's way too much
trouble to swap the board in and out.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

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