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From: her3@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Benjamin 'Drew' Herman)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Query: Can the printer use the modem port by default?
Message-ID: <1739@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 12:12:38 EST
Article-I.D.: sphinx.1739
Posted: Thu Feb 27 12:12:38 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Mar-86 02:57:55 EST
References: <563@mmm.UUCP>
Reply-To: her3@sphinx.UUCP (Benjamin 'Drew' Herman)
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Organization: U. Chicago - Computation Center
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Summary: 

In article <563@mmm.UUCP> mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR) writes:
>My brother has a 512K Mac with a MacBottom hard disk, which plugs into
>the printer port on his Mac. This means that he plugs his printer into
>the modem port, and he has to use a ChoosePrinter DA to switch the 
>printer port.
>
>I told my brother that I suspected that there was a small patch that
>could be made to the printer driver that would do this.

There is, there is a very nice program available called PRAM that allows you to
set the defaults on the system. Such as the time, the font used on your desktop
and lots of other goodies including changing the printer and modem lines and
baud.  This information is 'kept alive' by the little battery at the back of 
the mac and if you change the defaults using PRAM it stays intact until you 
remove the battery.
'PRAM' is ?SHAREWARE? so if you get it !! PLEASE !! sent the author $$. d|:-)

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Drew Herman    (-;b 
her3@UChicago.bitnet
{arpa,uucp are never nice to me so I don't give their address}