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From: cdl@mplvax.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: HELP! My printer locks up!
Message-ID: <186@mplvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 02:20:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 02:20:41 1985
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Organization: Marine Physical Laborator of SIO at UCSD
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In article <2641@nsc.UUCP> nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit) writes:
>     I have a problem with a Integral Data Systems IDS-440 "Paper Tiger"
>
>it collects the data in a buffer.  My printer has a 2K buffer in it.  
>
>     The next thing I did was to send a LARGE(4000) number of characters to the
>printer without sending a line feed or carriage return to see if BUSY really
>worked

My recollection of this printer is that it never does any *printing* until
you send it a <lf> or <cr>.  Therefore it has no way of emptying the buffer,
and the buffer stays full while further characters are ignored.  There is
probably a 'flush the buffer' magic character, but my Paper Tiger manual
is several miles away.  Look in yours.

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	carl lowenstein		marine physical lab	u.c. san diego
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