University of California Davis, Cow Department. (05/01/89)
About a week ago I heard that there was a driver written for the Mac
and the DeskJet. I wrote the authors to see if they could post it to
binnaries and they said no problem, but I haven't seen it there. Would
someone mail me and let me know if I was merely brain-dead when it was posted.
Thanks, Mark
** Paste niffty graphics and and disclaimer here **s29749s@saha.hut.fi (Olli Johannes Arnberg) (05/03/89)
> About a week ago I heard that there was a driver written for the Mac > and the DeskJet. I wrote the authors to see if they could post it to > binnaries and they said no problem, but I haven't seen it there. Would > someone mail me and let me know if I was merely brain-dead when it > was posted. > Thanks, Mark Yes. We do not want to send 37 parts of software to anybody, not even a moderator at a distant site (his address seems to be a little bit vague) _unless_ we know mail arrives correctly and (s)he wants it. We sent a message to the comp.binaries/sources.mac moderator Roger Long 23.04.1989 1909 and as of today (02.05.1989 2020) we have no answer. Based on our correspondence with Mr. Werner Uhrig (the person maintaining the archives at rascal.ics.utexas.edu), we assume this silence means that either he is in the process of getting the files locally or has a hard time figuring out how to find network bandwidth to post the 37 parts. :-) Olli Arnberg Ari Mujunen s29749s@saha.hut.fi s29851c@taltta.hut.fi PS. Here follows the list of the current archive sites known to us: --------- Currently (as of 28.04.1989) you can find our driver archived at various FTP sites. If you have FTP access, you could try to FTP the driver from one of them. Here is a list of sites assumed to have it (if you know another site, please let us know (to the mail alias "hpdj-bugs@hut.fi") so we can add the site to this list): US: --- INFO-MAC archives (Internet 10.0.0.56 from ARPA?) alias sumex-aim.stanford.edu (Internet address 36.44.0.6), directory "info-mac/util", files "deskjet-driver-manual.hqx" (205K WriteNow document) and "deskjet-driver.hqx" (52K actual driver). (The BatchPrint application and the documentation files for it are currently missing.) Fonts (not created by us) you might find useful can be found in the directory "info-mac/font". The file "deskjet.hqx" contains a screen font that has approximately the same dimensions as the built-in Courier in the HP DeskJet. To use these fonts with the "Draft" mode you must use the front panel switches. The instructions to modify a "DeskJet driver" to use these fonts DO NOT apply to the HPDJ, but another driver (Printer-Interface III from Datapak in Los Angeles). The files "times-large.hqx" and "helvetica-large.hqx" supposedly contain large point sizes of these popular fonts. rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Internet address 128.83.144.1), directory "mac/NEW-in-8904", files "BatchPrintApplication.Hqx" (40K) "BatchPrintManual.Hqx" (98K; WriteNow document) "BatchPrintSources.Hqx" (60K; PackIt of the Turbo Pascal sources) "BatchPrintSpooledManual.Hqx" (129K; viewable and printable with BatchPrint) "HPDJDriver.Hqx" (52K) "HPDJManual.Hqx" (205K; WriteNow document) "HPDJSources.Hqx" (168K; PackIt of the LightspeedC sources) "HPDJSpooledManual.Hqx" (255K; viewable and printable with BatchPrint) simtel20.arpa (Internet 26.0.0.74) (not verified) Europe: ------- kampi.hut.fi (Internet 128.214.3.9), directory "HPDJ", files as in rascal.ics.utexas.edu. If you aren't receiving the newsgroups nor have FTP access, you should try to make a local enquiry to find out if anybody has the driver. Note that the spirit of our HPDJ General Public License is that everybody who has it should redistribute it.