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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

4198.0. "PRT:/LA75 - Bypass prt drivers but keep interrupt requestors?" by SNOC02::KING (Randall King @SNO Sydney, Aussieland) Sat Oct 13 1990 09:31

    
    I have a print file (from Excellence! wp) that contains standard 
    ANSI printer control CSI (Contro. Sequence Introducer =  "<ESC>[" )
    sequences directly understood by DEC printers (eg. LA75) in DEC mode. 
    
    Currently, I have to bypass the PRT: WB 1.3 printer drivers by COPYing
    to SER: to get to my LA75, since the PRT: drivers (including Generic)
    filter/destroy the ANSI sequences.
    
    This means I get no PRT: interrupt handling and device control
    requesters eg. for paper out's etc.
    
    Does anyone know a way (suitable for normal human beings) that I can
    get to the printer without the device driver filters stuffing me up
    without having to use SER:?
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