avery@puff.UUCP (Slippery Jim) (03/01/86)
I have recently aquired a cable to connect a serial printer to my Amiga.
(I had to supply the pin description for assembly. Where have all the
techs in this world gone?) Well, I hooked them up at 9600 baud, and
everything seemed fine until the output hit the limit of my (crippled)
printer's (2k) buffer, when the Amiga just continued to output, thus
turning a 34k file into a 3k file very easily. I have now tried setting
the printer for both hardware (DTR/DSR) and xon/xoff handshaking (not
at the same time, mind you), but neither seems to work. I would like to
hear from anyone who has successfully used a serial printer this way,
and would like to know if the problem is in the serial driver (ignoring
the lack of DSR), the hardware (not being able to notice the lack of
DSR, which I highly doubt), or the printer driver (The most likely
suspect). I have yet to receive my 1.1 Rom Kernel manual, so I can't
yet write my own printer driver, nor do I have nearly as much information
about them as I'd like. Boy, 1200 baud to the printer stinks, and I'm
still worried about data loss! Thanks in advance for any response,
especially from Amiga.
Aaron Avery ({seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!uwvax!puff!avery) (avery@puff.wisc.edu)