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From: phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick)
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Subject: Re: HP Laserjet III from a Amiga. How to control.
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Date: 20 Jun 91 03:30:13 GMT
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hjanssen@cbnewse.att.com (hank janssen) writes:

>I  want  to  controll the printer by bypassing the printer.device from
>amiga and directly go to PRT:

I am not sure you know what you are doing here, if you direct out put to
the following names, you get these devices:

    Name        Device

    PRT:        printer.device
    SER:        serial.device
    PAR:        parallel.device

The printer.device, translates all of the ANSI standard codes in your
input stream and then sends these to either parallel.device or
serial.device depending on which one you have specified that your
printer is attached to in preferences.

If you want to send raw bytes to the a printer on the parallel port,
then you should send them to PAR: not PRT:.


Hope this helps,
Phil.

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