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From: jfadams@tc.fluke.COM (Jim Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Timeworks Desktop Publisher ST
Summary: Won't work thru serial port!
Keywords: serial port, RS-232
Message-ID: <4058@fluke.COM>
Date: 10 Jun 88 15:41:35 GMT
References: <8806070000.AA29777@orville.nas.nasa.gov>
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Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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One item I found to be its "fatal Flaw" was its printer driver(s).  I don't
own an Epson, or any other parallel printer other than an HP LaserJetII.  My
ST refuses to talk to the HP through anything other than the RS-232 port.
Timeworks DTP-ST evidently _assumes_ you are using the parallel port for your
printer.  Using the Control Panel to reconfigure the printer port as the modem
port didn't help, so I'm assuming that the driver code writes directly to the
port circumventing the OS.

Nice program.  Functionally equivalent to Ventura and GEM DTP for the IBMs.
Useless to me, however, unless someone has any ideas...

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James F. Adams       John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.        Everett, Washington USA
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