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From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ][c printer port.
Message-ID: <11927@reed.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 89 19:48:00 GMT
References: <8902181256.AA18681@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <8902181256.AA18681@crash.cts.com> pnet01!pro-ascii!pro-charlotte!pro-carolina!gregp@nosc.mil writes:
>If that is true, then how does the computer know when the printer is off, or
>when the buffer is full?  It has to be able to stop and start the sending of
>data unless the printer can print at 19,200 baud or whatever the computer is
>sending it at.

Hardware Handshaking.



for inews. . .

Sean Kamath
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