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From: mark@unisec.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Need help with printer driver
Message-ID: <457@unisec.USI.COM>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 19:03:10 EST
Article-I.D.: unisec.457
Posted: Wed Apr  8 19:03:10 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 08:21:46 EST
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Organization: UniSecure Systems, Inc. Newport, R.I.
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Keywords: printer driver Aztec Manx link howjadoit?

Well, after fighting with Aegis Draw Plus yesterday, DMCS on several
occaisions, Deluxe Paint II, Notepad, you name it, I finally decided
that if I was going to cuss and moan every time I tried to get a
reasonable hardcopy, at least I'd be responsible.  To that end, I dug
out a copy of the Epson printer driver (a slightly modified version of
the one in the RKM) that I had snagged from Compuserve and started
preparations for building my own Epson LQ-800 printer driver.  I had
been waiting for Aztec C V3.4 which allows me to create printer drivers.
Really!  It says so, right in the book!  And that's all it says! GRRRR!

The first problem I encountered was with an undefined PrinterSegmentData
which is XREF'ed in printertag.asm, but has no other references.  So,
I commented out the XREF.  I compiled with the +A option to force
longword alignment.  My problems lie with the linking process.  I suspect
that there is a well-known (but not revealed to me) process for linking
device drivers that probably involves a flag or two and a magic library.
Right now, I'm getting some symbol overrides (library base pointers) and
an undefined _main().  I suspect that if I was doing things right, the
reference to main wouldn't be generated, right?  I'm currently linking
with c.lib.  Is there some other library (amiga.lib?) that I should use
or a different startup file that I'm supposed to include?

I've got the Amiga RKM's, AmigaDOS manual, AutoDocs, complete Manx 
documentation (hah!), and the SYBEX Amiga Programmer's Handbook.  Do I
need new glasses or is what I'm looking for not there?!?  I know I'm
certainly fallible and have missed things that were under my nose before.
If you can provide me with the info I need to get going on this, I'll
be most grateful.  Thanks.

Mark

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