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- From: wabe@ukc.ac.uk (W.A.B.Evans)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: 24 pin screen dumps
- Message-ID: <1583@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 20:57:42 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.202839.19050@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Reply-To: wabe@ukc.ac.uk (W.A.B.Evans)
- Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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- In article <1992Aug26.202839.19050@ryn.mro4.dec.com> rost@rgb.dec.com (My name is Brian Rost) writes:
- >
- >I'm looking at upgrading to a letter quality 24 pin dot matrix printer but am
- >thinking that it may not do screen dumps correctly. Not that I do a lot of
- >screen dumps myself, but some of the software I run does (easier than writing
- >their own printer drivers, I guess).
- >
- >Is there a PD driver I can install that will allow me to dump to a 24 pin
- >printer?
- >
- > Brian Rost @rgb.enet.dec.com
- >
- Yes, I've been using a little utility called HC24_H12.PRG which
- I downloaded from atari archive at University of Michigan. It is originally
- by R. Hoh and has been modified by Ulf RIMKUS (for PURE C). This gives a
- dump in the HORIZONTAL (portrait) mode. There is a companion program called
- HC24_V??.PRG if you want vertical 24-pin dumps. The C-code accompanies the
- program HC24_H12.PRG and I had no difficulty in compiling it under MWC and
- making some (very minor) mods (like removing the RESET-Printer command at
- the start which produced an annoying accompanying Form Feed on my NEC P2200
- so that I could not choose where on the page to have the (horizontal) dump).
-
- I discovered that loading HC24_H12 deprives your available RAM of
- about 32,260 bytes (although the program itself compiles to about 1.2
- kbytes only).
-
- Cheers, W. Alan B. Evans
- [ wabe@ukc.ac.uk ]
-