Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!jec
From: jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Apollo Printing
Message-ID: <19615@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 89 20:47:13 GMT
Reply-To: jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley)
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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	If anyone has managed to get the prsvr/prmgr combination to work for
a simple dumb printer that uses XON/XOFF flow control, please send me some
mail.  I've tried to use the sample stuff in /sys/hardcopy and I strongly
suspect that it doesn't work.  First of all, /sys/ins/prsvr.ins.c has a
problem with a missing #endif (I put it at the bottom and hoped that was all
that was missing), and after fixing that I find that the C compiler doesn't 
seem to want to generate ".bin" (I assume that is what the weird parameters
on the "cc" command line are for) files, but does generate ".o" files.

	I tried to do the bind with the .o files instead and it seems to
have worked at least somewhat (I got a warning message about something being
multiply defined, but not error messages).  However, when I tried to use
it as the printer driver I got an error that the absolute address was already
in use.

   WHY IN THE WORLD IS IT SO HARD TO MAKE A STUPID PRINTER WORK ON THESE DAMN
   MACHINES!  THIS WOULD TAKE ALL OF TWO MINUTES ON A >>>REAL<<< UNIX MACHINE!

Ahem, anyway, let me know if you've managed to get this to work.

James Conley
Indiana University Computer Science
jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu