Re: Imagewriter II with a PC

[drs5316@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.R. Smith)]

In article <C8p63H.KGp@news.udel.edu> pads@ravel.udel.edu (Lord High Bit Counter of The Robotic Imperium) writes:
>I purchased a PC-clone about 9 months ago, and wanted to use my Imagewriter
>with it as a printer. Knowing nothing about serial ports, etc, I took one
>look at the vastly different cables and gave up. Now I have found a small
>adapter cable that is Apple Serial on one end, and IBM 25 pin serial on the
>other. I also have a 25 to 9 pin IBM serial cable. In my mind, hooking all
>of these together should give me a functioning printer, because just 
>hooking up an ancient Citizen printer to my parallel port functions.
>To test the printer I have a small text file the I try to copy to the
>printer in DOS:
>C:\TEXTFILE>copy test.txt com2
>General Failure Writing to COM2
>Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?
>HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!
>
>Steve Padbury

	Try using the mode and the print commands.  Mode will set the
baud rate of the port to a speed that matches the interface on the
printer.  An example:

C:\TEXTFILE>mode com2:9600,n,8,1,p

	For more info on the mode command, consult your dos manual.  Now
just enter the following:

C:\TEXTFILE>print test.txt

	It will ask for the device, and you usually would just hit return
to send it to LPT1.  Instead, type COM2, and you should be printing your
document.  Note that you will need to determine the baud rate, parity,
etc of the printer.

					Darrin
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