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- Item 0402338 23-Feb-90 05:39PST
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- From: A14 Carnegie Mellon, Rob Chandok,PRA
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- To: AUST0134 Jam Software Sydney,IVR
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- cc: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Re: Choosing without Chooser
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- The chooser sets the name of the RDEV file to use in the system File. If you
- set 'STR ' ID (-8192) to "LaserWriter", then the current printer driver is the
- laserwriter. That string seems to be always 32 bytes long, so pad it if you
- set it.
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- Note the following:
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- You must run chooser at some point, so the device driver itself has a chance to
- set up. For example, the laserwriter driver stores which laserwriter you have
- chosen in it's own file. But you said you were going to do this.
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- I know this 'cause I wrote a MacApp program that replaces Chooser, called
- "ChooseMe", to show how stupid Chooser's interface is. So I know how to call
- the RDEV's directly also. That code could be made available, it already is via
- anonymous ftp.
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- Rob
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