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From: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: How to build a parallel cable?
Message-ID: <1720@tekgvs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Sep-86 10:59:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  3 10:59:42 1986
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Hey, folks with printers doing double-linefeeds: listen up! For
some reason only an Epsonite could explain there is a silly little
wire in the otherwise normal "Centronics-standard" cable that, when
grounded, over-rides the internal switch setting for "LF added to
CR" mode.

I first discovered this by doing the EE equivalent of "reading the
code": I got out the manual and traced the stupid schematic. There
it was, in black and white. The other half of the problem is that
the other end of the wire - at your computer - is usually grounded
("Hey, Martha! What should we do with this unused wire we got left
over here?" "Well, he hasn't been behaving very well today: let's
ground him!") and that fixes that!

keith