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From: dcw@athena.mit.edu (David C. Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Z-Link and //c serial printer port
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Date: 15 Feb 89 23:54:20 GMT
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In article <9272@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> dcw@athena.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) writes:
>In article <14622@cup.portal.com> Geva_Apple-Maniac_Patz@cup.portal.com writes:
>>To reply to those people who have sent me mail/conference replies about
>>setting Port 1 to printer instead of Modem mode, this does NOT work.
>
>To clarify even more, I have some hot info from the author himself
>(me): The problem will be solved mighty soon. I do use the hardware,
>and switching between one slot and the other is a matter of changing
>which address to use. A fix will be posted soon.

To clarify to full tilt: if you have a bug report, please send it to
me by e-mail. My ability to read news comes and goes (Project Athena
is somewhat flakey), so posting bug reports to the net isn't good
enough. I happened to catch a complaint that Z-Link wouldn't work on a
//c using slot 1. This bug report went over comp.binaries.apple2 - the
very last place it should have gone.

Anyway, to make you all feel better, I found and fixed the bug. Z-Link
oughta work on a //c using slot 1. For that matter, it ought to work
in a //e using any slot. When I made things slot-flexible, I forgot to
take out this one bit of hardwired code. Oops. Everything should be
just ducky now.

I will post in BinSCII format from now on. I will most likely pack the
files together with Shrinkit, as it does a better job of compression.
If Shrinkit hasn't made the rounds, then somebody better tell me. I
missed a lot of news (about 3 weeks), so I don't know the new
popularity. In case you don't have BinSCII, don't worry - I'll send
that out in EXECUTIONER format this weekend after I write the docs for
it.

Dave Whitney	Third year undergraduate student in Computer Science at MIT
dcw@athena.mit.edu  ...!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!dcw  dcw@goldilocks.mit.edu
I wrote Z-Link. Send me bug reports.           I use a //GS. Send me Tech Info.
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