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From: alexis@dasys1.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Where can I find a quick&dirty serial printer driver?
Message-ID: <5760@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 88 20:59:36 GMT
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I have a highly non-standard serial printer (PrinterProducts model 720 point-
of-sale) which I must connect to a MacPlus (actually, five printers and five
Pluses...)

I would like a bare-bones serial driver which will just let me pass through
any ascii character to the printer. Eventually I will need to read information
back from the printer but I can worry about that later. The question is, does
anyone sell such a driver? Is there one in the Publlic Domain, or is there a
shareware one?

If not, I will write it myself. Writing a standard Printer Driverfor the Mac
is suppoesed to be a horrendous task, but this shouldn't be so tough, as it
need only accept draft-mode stuff. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how
to begin? How about source code (I speak Pascal, C, Assembly, others).

Thanks in advance

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