| In MSBCS::DISK_WALLACE_R:[WALLACE_R.PUBLIC]la50.arc is the .c source and a
.prg to a program Jeff Lomicka originaly made available called PSLA50 (ie:
Print Sixels to LA50). The program will do a "screen dump" of any part of the
screen to the LA50. You do NOT need a special program if you just want to
print text files to your LA50, connect it to the modem port on the ST and use
the standard ST desk accessory (haven't used it for years, so don't remember
the name) to configure the printer, and set it to be SERIAL (or modem) instead
of PARALLEL.
Let us know if you can't get any of this to work.
Ray
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| > Is there a la50 driver for 1st word?
1st word printer drivers are easy to create if you have an LA50
"Programmer Refernce Manual" and a text editor (ie:1st word :-)
If you look in the 1st words printer directory you will find a handful of .hex
files. Those are printer driver source files and have all the comments you
need to modify one for any printer. Just copy one of the files (say
eps_fx85.hex) to a file called la50.hex, then get out your la50 manual and
start editing la50.hex.
For example, find the line whith the comment (* starts a comment) saying
UNDERLINE ON and edit it to have the following LA50 codes, similiar to this:
22,1B,5B,62,62 * Underline on
23,1B,5B,62,64 * Underline off
The fist number is 1st words # for that function (and are probably not 22 and
23 like I have here), do NOT change this #. All the rest of the numbers are
hex equivelents for the escape or control sequence which performs the
specified function. The 1B is ESCape, the 5B is '[', and 62 is '2', thus we
have "ESC [ 2 2" as called out in the la50 manual for turning on underline.
The la50 doesn't have a lot of the functions allowed in the .hex file. The
ones it doesn't have you may want to substitute (like use bold in place of
italics) or just disable (I think by commenting out the whole line, but check
out the file to see for sure).
After creating the .hex file you have to run the printer configure program in
that directory and then copy the resulting file to your 1st word directory.
NOTE: I'm doing this from memory (except for the la50 codes) so the specifics
may be a little vague or off. I have never connected a la50 to my ST, but I
have modified one of these .hex files for my Panasonic 1124i.
Have fun.
Ray
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