[Coco] Coco3 MESS104 and printers

[Bob Devries]

The device driver for /P is PRINTER

Be careful about the baud rate. I have found that under some circumstances, 
the file that is printed to from MESS will just contain garbage. It seems 
best to keep the printer baud rate at the default 600bps.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tim lindner" <tlindner at macmess.org>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco3 MESS104 and printers


> Paul Fitch <pfitchjr at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> The MESS has an option to output to a printer.  What device drivers and
>> descriptors should I use with Nitros9 6309 version 030206 to send text to
>> that printer emulation?
>
> MESS doesn't emulate any printers. So all of the data sent to the
> built-in serial port is just written to a file on the host computer.
>
> Under Nitros-9 the proper device descriptor is /p. I forget which driver
> is required for it.
>
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> tim lindner
> tlindner at macmess.org                                              Bright
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