eraps1@ulowell.UUCP (01/20/87)
Hi, After looking around for a QuadRam Quadjet driver for a couple of weeks with no luck, I decided to see if the Canon Inkjet driver could be used (it is floating on numerous BBS's). The answer is yes (with a small modification). The only difference (that we care about) is a change in the graphics command sequence. The Canon uses an <ESC>X, while the Quadjet uses an <ESC>H. Unfortunately, the <ESC>X sequence never appears in the driver (it is placed in the buffer a character at a time). Examination of the Canon driver revealed 15 'X'es. The second one (trail and error) is the one we want. To patch the driver, simply write a short program to copy the Canon driver a character at a time to the (new) Quadjet Driver file and replace the second 'X' as it goes by with an 'H'. That's it. If you are feeling adventurous, change the printer driver name inside the driver with "filezap" (from one of the Fish Disks). The name is in the second record and must be terminated with a NULL. (Aside: filezap is a great program, but it lacks [my version anyway] a way to search for strings/characters/hex codes, or we could do the whole patch inside it). Good Luck, [moderator's note: message was truncated here.]