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From: earleh@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple -> Serial Printers
Message-ID: <7980@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 24 Jan 88 20:36:29 GMT
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Summary: Daisy source code is available from MacTutor.

In article <8118@reed.UUCP>, kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) writes:
> In article <3382@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> garnett@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Garnett) writes:
> >
> >	I've been having problems getting apple computers to print succesfully
> >on serial printers.
...
> > Is there a driver for the OKI for the Mac?
> 
> In MicroSoft Word, there is a dumb serial driver.  I also happen to have a
> small Rascal program (anyone who knows what *that* is gets a cookie!) that
> you might like, though it's rather crude.  I might be able to get the source
> for it as well. . .

The source code for Daisy, a user-configurable, Chooser-compatible, drop-in
ImageWriter Driver replacement which does text only, is available from 
MacTutor Magazine on both the November and December source disks.  The 
corresponding article is contained in the November and December issues of
the magazine.  Although I sold them the article and the source code, I get
no further royalties or benefits from their sales of source disks or issues.

MacTutor is located at P.O. box 400, Placentia, CA 92670.  Their phone is
at (714) 630-3730.  Source disks are $8.00, and back issues are $4.00 each.
Daisy is written entirely in LightSpeedC, and the resource code is in RMaker
format.

Best results are usually obtained when making a printer cable if you can set
up the printer to use Xon/Xoff handshaking, although Daisy and the Mac support
hardware handshaking, too.  The most common mistake when making a printer
cable is to get the send and receive lines mixed up.  These are pins 2 and 3 on
a standard DB25 RS-232 connector.  If you have fabricated a cable which you
think should work, and it doesn't, you may have these two lines mixed up.
I recommend a three-wire cable, which has ground, send, and receive lines
hooked up.  I don't recommend trying to use hardware handshaking unless
it is the only kind which your printer supports.

Daisy probably works for the OKI, although you didn't say what model your
OKI was.

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