Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site water.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!water!phcalamai From: phcalamai@water.UUCP (Paul H. Calamai) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: LaserWriter+ <--> IBM-PC Message-ID: <560@water.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Oct-86 21:44:38 EDT Article-I.D.: water.560 Posted: Mon Oct 20 21:44:38 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Oct-86 23:47:43 EDT References: <544@water.UUCP> <591@bunny.UUCP> <382@entropy.UUCP> <185@drilex.UUCP> Reply-To: phcalamai@water.UUCP (Paul H. Calamai) Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 11 Summary: In article <185@drilex.UUCP> dricej@drilex.UUCP (Craig Jackson) writes: >The Laserwriter requires some form of flow control to avoid overruns. >By default, it uses XON/XOFF; the PC BIOS contains no knowledge of this. >The PC, by default, can only deal with hardware (DTR) flowcontrol, and this >only because it's really in the hardware, not the software. >However, nearly every spooler I have ever seen supports XON/XOFF. Most people >will be using a spooler, so I think this is the answer. Also, many programs >that do spooling themselves (such as wordprocessors) support XON/XOFF. Assuming the software (spooler) supports XON/XOFF flow control what are the pin configurations for connecting the PC's serial I/O port to the Apple LaserWriter PLUS ?