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From: ripley@tubopal.UUCP (Hans-Ch. Eckert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Print Desktop (Alt-HELP) with Epson 24 pin printer - HELP NEEDED
Message-ID: <1268@pulz.tubopal.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 90 20:08:26 GMT
References: <25E742B8.25892@paris.ics.uci.edu> <5440107@hplsla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: ripley@tubopal.UUCP (Hans-Ch. Eckert)
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <5440107@hplsla.HP.COM> andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino) writes:
]| You need to get a program called PRTST24 written by Dan Wilga of
]| Gribnif software. (These are the people that sell NEODESK).
]Whoops, that program is really named SCRDMP24! The brain was a bit fogged 
]when I posted this. :-)

Anyway, there are many more programs which allow this. I for example am
using a program called fx_emu.prg which is by NEC.

I hoped TOS 1.4 will overcome this nasty "feature" but it isn't. Sigh.
If Atari used the right Codes, the could have made a hardcopy which works
on both, 9 pin and 24 pin, printers.

Stefan Lindner's TeX-Driver (nl10.ttp) does this. The output isn't too well,
and the pagesizes are distorted, but you can print with it. 

Allan, what about including 24 pin support in the next release of TOS?
It can't be that much work and it is well worth it (IMHO)...

Greetings,
				RIPLEY

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