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- From: mattd@apple.com (Matt Deatherage)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Printer driver information.
- Message-ID: <mattd-111292184306@city-lights.apple.com>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 02:45:47 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.052917.43067@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
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- Organization: Developer Support Center, Apple Computer, Inc.
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- In article <1992Dec11.052917.43067@slate.mines.colorado.edu>,
- gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu (DESROCHERS GARY FREDERIC) wrote:
- >
- >
- > O.K. So I look through all the books I have at the IDs and I nowhere
- > see which one is a Printer port or a Modem port let alone a Remote Print
- > Manager or Printer interface. (The Console driver I got of course.). The
- > names I get are SCSI printer, Serial printer, Serial LaserWriter, Character
- > devic driver(generic), ect. Nothing about Printer port or Modem port or
- > any of the others.(well again exclude Console driver.) AQm I missing
- > somthing? What gives? Is how to get the other names given in the driver
- > manual?(Something I thought you only needed for programming drivers.) Is
- > there other ways of doing this? Anything would be helpful.
-
- Hmm...GS/OS Reference isn't very helpful here, is it? I'm looking at
- the "standard" device ID list on page 122.
-
- Well, the key is to use some extra common sense (above what you normally
- have to use just to get the stuff to work). You should find that $0009
- means "serial port set to modem" and $000B means "serial port set to
- printer." Remember, you can change ports 1 or 2 between "Printer, modem,
- your card" and (on ROM 3) "AppleTalk". If you really want to know,
- check the slot numbers. Internal ports 1 and 2 have to be the serial
- ports, since there aren't going to be more IIgs machines.
-
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