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From: burton@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Philip Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: using parallel and serial ports
Keywords: Can I switch to/from D630 mode.
Message-ID: <1352@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 90 20:36:03 GMT
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In article <17616@rpp386.cactus.org> woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes:
>> >> TFM manual doesn't say anything more than "use switch 4 for parallel, and
>> Also, the er ... manual doesn't tell you how to switch between Diablo 630 
>> emulation and Postscript or LJ emulations through software.  The PSEXEC
>> utilities don't do it either.  
>> 
>> Is this also an "undocumented" feature?
>yes it is.  The Diablo is a pain, but the Lj emulation switch is fairly easy.
>the PSEXEC program does the switch beautifully.  I use it all the time.  I wrote
>the guts of the emulation switching for it.  There are several files that
>are downloaded by the PSEXEC.  if you look at all the text files, you
>will find the needed code. Look for the *.prt files. Someone else wrote
>the outer skeleton and wrapped some stuff around the core routines,
>try this:  It is NOT complete really.  There are several other things that
>need to be done for this to really work well
>

Woody,  My wife uses the D630 mode of the QMS 810 all the time.  But it's a real
pain to switch manually with that user-hostile thumbwheel.  All the time,
I do an MS Word or Excel print, and I get the Postscript output, not the
docuemnt I wanted.  Since I use the 810 as an (expensive compared to a washing
machine or refrig.) appliance, I would like to set up a batch file for her to
use with Wordstar 3.3 (yeah, I know, but .....)

I have already extracted the code from the PSEXEC to use in my own batch
files to switch the printer in/out of LJ modes.  I would like to do the same
with the D630 mode.

So, for 64 thousand dollars, sports fans, can you post code that I will 
gratefully type up at home to accomplish this task.

(That will add some perspective to the debate about purity vs. functionality
on a specific printer.)



>Woody