earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton) (10/07/87)
Reference: <8339@felix.UUCP> The generic serial printer driver I posted to comp.binaries.mac has an incompatibility with MicroSoft Word, VersaTerm PRO and maybe some other programs. The problem arises because these programs expect the routine PrOpenPage() (in the printer code) to do a SetPort to the printing port before it returns. This feature of the printing code is not documented anywhere by Apple, as far as I know, and so I didn't put it in my driver. Whether PrOpenPage is required do this, or whether the authors of these programs just took advantage of a feature of Apple's drivers that they found, is only known to the folks at Cupertino, who aren't sayin'. To get a copy of the printer driver that works with MicroSoft Word and VersaTerm PRO (and has some other, small, bugs fixed) follow the directions in the comp.binaries.mac posting. (I'm asking for bug reports, people who send me good ones get a free copy of the final version of the printer driver.) -- ********************************************************************* *Earle R. Horton, H.B. 8000, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755 * *********************************************************************