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From: ccastkw@gitpyr.UUCP (KENNETH E. WALKER)
Newsgroups: net.wanted,net.micro.pc
Subject: Printer-Code Interceptor
Message-ID: <1565@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 17:09:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 18 17:09:57 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Mar-86 05:20:36 EST
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Keywords: daemon or some such thing
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(* EAT ME *) or don't (* EAT ME *)

I'm looking for a daemon or some such thing to sit out in the memory of
an IBM PC-XT and intercept-then-translate characters being sent to the 
printer.

What the story is, is that a friend bought his son an XT and a Toshiba
"3-in-one" printer. The printer does great letter-quality stuff, but
we're talking a 15 year old who wants something FUN and neat with graphs
and pictures etc.... The printer emulates a QUME "Sprint" (I've never heard
of it...) and doesn't like the output of most graphics printing programs.
Therefore I was elected (my friend's company is going to pay for my next

The daemon seems to be it in my experience, yet I don't know how to write
them. If anyone out there has such a wonderful device, I would be very happy
if I could get a hold of it> I will also be joyous if someone can just
point me in the right direction and explain what I need to do to create one.

Thanks in advance.


-- 
KENNETH E. WALKER
Office of Computing Services
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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