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From: rick@mips.UUCP (Rick Frazier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Serial printers.
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Date: Fri, 14-Nov-86 16:42:53 EST
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> 
>    I have a problem with connecting an amiga to serial printers.  I
> have no problem sending text to them via "type foo ser:" but no matter
> what I do in preferences I can not get prt: to work with a serial
> printer.
>   Just so you know ... I am using 1.2gamma1 and trying to connect to
> both an imagewriter and a diablo 630.  I have set baud and parity

I have a Diablo 1640-ksr serial printer that I use "all of the time"
under 1.1 and 1.2 beta versions (I don't have Gamma yet).  Try one of 
the earlier releases to se if it's a 1.2gamma1 problem.  I've set the
prefs to diable 630, serial, 1200baud, etc.  I have been printing things
via the notepad, and notice that NOTHING happens unless I print in 
"draft" mode.  Possibly this is the problem for you as well.  Of course,
daisy wheel printers print at a "fixed" rate, so the difference between a
"draft" and a "finish" mode might not be meaningful (or coded in the drivers?).
I haven't tried to use prt: for so long I'm not sure if it worked from the
CLI with this printer, but it seemed to for my parallel daisy wheel printer.

Hope this helps.......

-- 
--Rick Frazier--  DISCLAIMER: The above is individual opinion (the result of my
imperfect recall of facts, real or imagined) in no way representing anyone else.
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