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From: svc@well.sf.ca.us (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Deskwriter usage
Summary: Close but no cigar
Message-ID: <16638@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 12 Mar 90 17:34:23 GMT
References: <256@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <160700096@primerd>
Reply-To: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <160700096@primerd> barry@primerd.prime.com writes:
>
>Most comms programs that log traffic do so by dumping characters onto
>the printer port, bypassing the printer driver completely.  The HP
>DeskWriter does not have any builtin fonts and cannot be used in this
>fashion. 
>
	I can not speak for other comm programs, but I can tell you that 
MicroPhone and MicroPhone II (2.0 and 3.0) _DO_ use the printer driver for 
all printing task.  For print logging (print streaming, etc.), we use the
'low level interface' to the printer drivers - and this is what the HP Drivers
_DO NOT_ support!  Most third  party (as well as the Apple Drivers) support
this interface...Why can't HP!??!?!
(Oh, I should also comment that when the announced new printing architecture
that Apple has promised arrives that the approved method of doing 'print logging
will be do 'Blast it out the serial port' (that's a quote from an Apple 
Engineer)....

>If you don't need immediate logging of traffic, try copying text from
>the Microphone II capture buffer into a DA such as McSink that can
>print using the standard driver.  This should work with the DeskWriter.
>
	That will work, though for a more 'non-interactive' method we 
recommend that you use th the capture file commands to put all the data into a 
capture file on disk and the print the file later with a either some other
program (like McSink, a word processor) or our Print File XCMD (in version 3.0)

Leonard Rosenthol
Software Ventures
'Printing Guru'
MicroPhone II Development Team

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