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From: jipping@smaug.cs.hope.edu (Mike &)
Subject: Re: NEC LC-890 printer and serial input
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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 90 19:59:45 GMT

From article <154@heaven.woodside.ca.us>, by glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid):
> 
> P.S. Another thought is for someone with an LC-890 to try the following
> program and tell us if it prints anything.  Note that this is a
> brain-dead emulator and it will print one long line instead of printing
> the multiple lines that are in the input stream.  However, if it prints
> anything at all, then the printer is working correctly and does not
> strip comments out of the input stream.  If it does not print anything
> at all, then the jury is still out, because I haven't tested this program
> very extensively :-)
     [ program code deleted ]

On our LC-890, the code produced one long line of data -- all comments.
I guess it doesn't strip comments out of the input stram after all...

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