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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: HP Laserjet III from a Amiga. How to control.
Keywords: hp, control
Message-ID: <1396@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 91 12:32:31 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.212436.14899@cbnewse.att.com>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
Lines: 36

In article <1991Jun19.212436.14899@cbnewse.att.com> hjanssen@cbnewse.att.com (hank janssen) writes:
>
>I have a Laserjet III, and i wanted to write a  programm  that  prints
>stuff  to  it from intuition. (Yes i know that they are out there, but
>none of it does what i want it to do)
>
>I  want  to  controll the printer by bypassing the printer.device from
>amiga and directly go to PRT:

Hmm, to put it frankly: PRT: *IS* THE printer.device! And the driver!
Perhaps you should just replace PRT: by PAR: (or SER:, respectively),
then you really bypass all those drivers.

>Example a string like this. (THis is only an example)
>
><ESC>[5j
>
>Will result on the prinout as:
>
>5j
>
>It eats up my ESCAPE character and my [  character.  while  it  should
>interped as something changing from landscap  to  portait.  changing
>point size etc etc.

When you talk to PRT:, it only regards valid ANSI escape sequences and
intentionally trashes all others.

>The ROM manual staes that when you open PRT: directly all is sent to the printer RAW.
                                         ^^^^
Please check again. If it really says so, it is a bug to be corrected.
It should say PAR: or SER: for getting RAW output.

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Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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