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From: sob@neuro1.UUCP (Stan Barber)
Newsgroups: net.micro.trs-80,net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Printer drivers (Re: Tandycentricity)
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Date: Wed, 1-Jan-86 18:02:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  1 18:02:41 1986
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Reply-To: sob@neuro1.UUCP (Stan Barber)
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Actually, it is possible to design a standard set of printer drivers for
TRSDOS 6 and LDOS 5 that can take a standard set of escape sequences and
do the translation. Both TRSDOS 6 and LDOS 5 have hooks in them to allow
this. Tandy never bothered to approach life in this manner. I am not sure
they would bother now that 8-bit machines are being replaced by MS-DOS
machines.
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Stan		uucp:{ihnp4!shell,rice}!neuro1!sob     Opinions expressed
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