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From: herb@ajfcal.uucp (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: /dev/pio1 and /etc/pio1.conf help?
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.132219.10460@ajfcal.uucp>
Date: 12 Jun 91 13:22:19 GMT
Organization: Codesign Information Systems
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I'm sorry everyone... I vaguely remember this being discussed
before but in my usual manner, I dismissed it as not pertaining
to me... Now I find myself needing to hook up a QMS-810+ printer
to the parallel port on a 400t... I've used the information 
in /install/doc/apollo/os.10.3.release_notes and created the
file "/sys/node_data/etc/pio1.conf" with the appropriate information
from the release notes... However, the printer blocks when I send
a postscript document to the printer... ie: it blocks so bad, I
can only "sigp -b" the process... After that I have to shutdown 
the machine before I can attempt again... I can't locate where
the pio1.conf stuff is documented more fully... I'd like some 
descriptions of options there are and what the mnemonics mean...

Information: qms-810 turbo, 400t, standard PC parallel cable, and
printer set to postscript/parallel mode.... Printer works fine
with same cable in same mode on a PC under MS-Douche...
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