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From: GR.SLK@ISUMVS.BITNET (Steve Kunz)
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Date: 6 Mar 89 15:44:33 GMT
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How do you set the baud-rate and data-format for the printer serial
port after you have entered BASIC?  I am using a IIc Plus and
trying to start up a text editor that does not have it's own hardware
setup interface (FrEdWriter) but the defaults used are wrong and I
just get graphic garbage off my non-Apple printer (I need
2400baud/7bit/Space).

I can get it to work if I boot off my system utilities disk, then
re-boot from a second disk containing the text editor.  This is
documented as the way of doing it in the Apple "System Utilities"
manual.  LAUNCHER (presumably) sets up the serial port in this case
according to what I specified under the "set serial ports" system
utility function (and saved in the SETTINGS file).  Whatever the
system utility disk LAUNCHER is doing, I would like BASIC.SYSTEM to
do from a STARTUP file to avoid booting from two disks to start up
an application.

What do I need in my STARTUP file to get the job done?

Steve Kunz -- GR.SLK@ISUMVS.BITNET
              GRSLK@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU