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From: docken@argos.uucp (William Dockendorf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Printer Driver Generator
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Date: 15 May 89 18:53:58 GMT
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Reply-To: docken@argos.UUCP (William Dockendorf)
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  Sorry to post this to the net, but my mailer demon doesn't seem to
  know about 'cbmvax'.   This is a message to David Berezowski about rewriting
  the printer driver generator....


  I would like to look into possibly voluntering for rewriting the printer driver
generator.  I realize that I may be getting myself into a lot of work, but I was
looking for something useful to do to learn more about the amiga.

  Some background info :  I recently bought (aproximately 2 months ago) an amiga
1000 from a friend who was upgrading to a 2000.  After getting bored with just
playing games, I have bought Lattice C version 5 and have ordered a hard disk and
controller and I'm looking to do some "serious" programming.  Obviously, I don't
know a whole lot about the amiga yet but I am a good C programmer (that's what I
do for a living).

  Questions : 
   1. How to I get a copy of the old printer driver generator?
      (One of the recent messages mentioned a PrtDrvGen on Fred Fish #60 and
       a PrtDrvGen 2.3 on Amicus Disk #22.  Does this mean that someone has
       already rewritten a printer driver generator?)
   2. What other inforamtion do I need to get started?

  Thanks,
    William Dockendorf

"what you are seeing is the direct result of a causality violation"