Re: Typewriter

[khym@bga.com (Khym Mahn)]

In article <2fcd30$6ra@altitude.hip.cam.org>,
Phillip Vandry <vandry@CAM.ORG> wrote:
>schultp@aa.wl.com (Paul Schultz) writes:
>>I looked into this problem a little bit many years ago. The problem
>>I saw in writing a program was how to tell your printer (an Imagewriter II
>>in my case) to flush its buffer after every character. I gave up on it.
>
>I tried the same thing a few years back and concluded that the printer was too
>smart to be made stupid. :-) The only solution I can come up with is to
>print, move down, and move back up. I suspect that moving 1/144" would do it.
>You'd hardly notice that.

You could also send a backspace character, then a space. The backspace
also flushes the buffer. However, I think a line-buffered typewritter
would be more useful than one that prints after each character...
-- 
Dave Huang
khym@wixer.bga.com