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- You can avoid turning your 4019 E off and on in order to reset the printer
- to the desired type of emulation with the enclosed simple batch files. You can
- also call the batch files from the batch file you use to run an application
- program in order to make sure that the printer emulation mode is correctly
- chosen before you application program takes over. For example I (almost) always
- run Word Perfect 5.1 in HP emulation mode. By adding the DOS 3.3 command
- "CALL PRHP" to my WP.BAT file the 4019 will (if turned on) be set to the correct
- mode. If the printer is not turned on the DOS Copy command which sends the
- Escape-setup stream to the printer gives me the "Abort, Retry.." command until
- I turn the printer on and issue the "R(etry)" command. (If I want to run WP5.1
- with the 4019 E driver I can shell form WP to Dos and type "PRIBM" ie.
- Cntr F1, select DOS command and type PRIBM.BAT).
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- The batch files PRxx.BAT will switch the datastream mode of the IBM 4019 E
- to the xx mode where xx is either IBM ( the PPDS mode ); HP (HP series II
- emulation; or PLOT (HP plotter emulation).
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- Place the *.BAT files in one of the directories in your path statement (e.g.
- C:\UTIL ). As written the Batch files assume the three *.2PR files will be
- in a subdirectory named "C:\PR". If you put them in another directory edit the
- batch files accordingly.
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- This program was really simple to write. The hard part was finding out what
- escape sequence would change my 4019 between its three datastream modes. IBM's
- documentation does not even hint that it is possible to switch the modes other
- than turning the printer off and on. Such manual resetting often means the
- wrong mode in effect when a application runs which can waste a lot of paper
- before you can dive to the Start/Stop-Print/Check button.
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- The escape sequence can be produced from a program named "LAZRDRVR" which is an
- apparently unsupported IBM program available on the EXEC-PC under the name
- LAZRDRVR.ZIP. If you do not have the program GET IT since in can change modes
- and do many other functions. Its only drawback is that it is completly menu
- driven (ie you can't have it send a desired command sequence by issuing a
- DOS command line call or by calling it from a batch file). The program's output
- can be redirected to text file rather than the printer. By simply running the
- program 3 time each time issuing the single mode command I desired and then
- renaming the output file to *.2PR I produced the 3 files with the correct
- escape sequence which when copied to the printer would switch the mode.
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- While I have no way of testing it (I only have the 4019 E) the batch file will probably work on the
- 4019 as well. If anyone can verify that it does please let me know.
-
- I would also appreciate hearing from anyone who has bothered to set up the
- PC MAG LZSELCT/SETUP (V10N2) program for the 4019 E / 4019 or even the
- HP Laser II series. The LZSELECT program does much of what the LAZRDRVR
- program does (but only for the HP series II commands not the IBM PDDS and
- HP plotter modes). Its main advantage is that its output is in a decimal format
- (ie ESC= 27) which allows the output to be used in the PC MAG SETUP2 program
- which can be run as a TSR.
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- I frequent the EXEC-PC BBS in Milwaukee.
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