Re: Appleworks 3.0 and Epson APL card

[hinchlif@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Hinchliffe)]

FORDE@UV6.EGLIN.AF.MIL writes:

>It has been a while but my first printer was an Epson FX-80 connected via 
>an EPL card.  All I recall having to do to get the printer to work 
>perfectly with Appleworks was to specify, in the 'other activities' menu, a 
>printer initialization string.  That string was 'ctrl-I80N'.  I don't 
>remember having to make any patches to Appleworks (I could easily be 
>mistaken, however, considering the "plethora" of patches that circulated 
>for the early versions of Appleworks).  I bought that EPL card in 1984 if 
>that helps in determining the probable ROM version.

Control-I "80N" is a pretty much standard init string used by most printer 
cards, and is the default string used by AppleWorks when printing to an Epson
parallel printer. This is easily confirmed by checking out the "Interface Card"
selection in the "Specify Information about Printers" menu. 

Unfortunately, the manuals with all of the _APL_ cards I have seen specify 
Ctrl-I 80N as the init string, anyway. I have fiddled with this string a bit
to see if I could get any response on several occasions, all to no avail. 
Perhaps you DO have one of the later cards.


>Eric S. Ford

==============================================   _______
Peter Hinchliffe     _____                      /   /   \ ##### #####           \  /\  //\  _  _ | __ | |                      / @@@@@   \ ###   ###
 \/  \//--\|_)|_)|(/__|_|_                    / @@@@@@@   ###   ###
           |  |                               \ @@@@@@    ###   ###
Supporting the Apple II in WA                  \ @@@@@@  ###   ###  
----------------------------------------------  \_______##### #####       
reply to --->  hinchlif@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au
==============================================
Perth, Western Australia