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- From: sparapan@SALT.RA.ANL.GOV
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- Subject: Printer Problems in PC/SAS SOLVED!!
- Message-ID: <9211060204.AA24684@flash.ra.anl.gov>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 02:04:24 GMT
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- SAS-L
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- I was in the unfortunate position of trying to sort out the hardware
- software interaction for a Panasonic 123KX and DOS/SAS 6.03/6.04.
- Many of you probably remember the problem. Nice graphics in--garbage
- out. The problem was that there are a seemingly unlimited number of
- goptions and drivers(software) and many, many hardware options(Epson
- graphics mode, IBM graphics modes 1 and 2, etc.). It won't take you
- long to see the possible combinations create a rather large sample
- set. I posted the problem to the list and I received several helpful
- hints. They didn't completely solve the problem, but they helped me
- narrow it down. First of all, in DOS you have to print a graphics
- stream file with /b option(that is print/b) for binary. Secondly, this
- is probably not the way you want to do it. The way I've found most to
- my liking is to set the goptions as follows:
- GOPTIONS DEV=LQ800 GACCESS="SASGASTD>PRN";
- The key here is the gaccess which you can find in the SASHELP.DEVICES
- or if you have created one the GDEVICE0.DEVICES catalog. This is the
- part that threw me. I guess I've been working with 6.07 too long.
- (Actually, I now remember figuring this one out with a call to SI
- several years ago, but apparently that part of memory was suffering an
- addressing conflict.) Judging from the few responses that I received
- either a lot of people forgot it also or never knew it in the first place.
- Either way I thought that this information would be of value. Thanks for
- those that were helpful on this problem.
- Rodney
-