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- WORDSTAR vs. CANON (NCR, etc.)
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- When I tried to get Wordstar and the Canon printers working
- together, I always had a 'page ending' problem. The Canon is set
- for 62 lines a page. I didn't want to change the DIABLO 630 mode
- and I didn't want to play with dip switches on the printer
- because I use it with other programs without a hitch.
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- After calling CANON (who tried very hard) and MICROPRO ('we don't
- have that information'), I worked this out. After reading the
- following, I would appreciate hearing from those of you who have
- got a more elegant approach. (Like, where we don't get a blank
- page at the beginning of every Print Job).
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- In Winstall:
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- Printer Menu:
- make sure printer is DIABLO 630
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- Wordstar Features section:
- change the Number of lines/page to 82
- change the Top Margin to 3
- change the Bottom Margin to 26
- change the Form Feed default to ON
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- Custom Installization section:
- change the Initialization string to 1bh
- dh
- 50h
- change the Deinit string to the same
- as the Initialization string
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- NOTE: It's very important to activate the "form feed" command.
- If your version of Wordstar doesn't have a "form feed ON" option
- in the "Features" section... You can either say "yes" to form
- feeds every time you use the Print command or, you'll have to
- change it through the "back door". At the "Installation Menu" of
- Winstall, hit "+", then when it asks you for an address:
- ":PODBLK+1" It'll show you a bunch of stuff starting either
- with "FF" or "00". That's what you want. you need to change it
- to "FF". (If it alreay is FF, you don't have to do anything.)
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- Probably the page length numbers can be changed, as long as they
- end up in the right proportions (whatever that may be).
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- My 'quest for knowledge' disappears when something functions.
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- Nina E. Woods
- 72366,1310
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