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- The manual describes the construction of a serial interface cable in
- Appendix A. This cable will ONLY work reliably if the PostScript
- printer is configured for XON/XOFF flow control handshaking. If your
- printer uses hardware (DTR) flow control, it will NOT work. (The
- symptoms will be lost pages in large print jobs.) Either reconfigure
- your printer for XON/XOFF handshaking or use a normal null-modem cable
- with pins 2/3/7/6/8/20 all used.
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- THIS IS NOT A NETWORK VERSION!!
- The network version is still being tested. Consequently, you have to
- be careful how you run PSFX on a network. Some features may not work
- as usual.
- To use PSFX on an IBM Token Ring, run it with the following commands:
- NET USE LPT2: \printername
- PSFX LPT2:
- Do not attempt to substitute LPT1: -- the system will behave as though
- you did not run PSFX.
- The shift-PrtSc key will not work at all on a Token Ring; IBM disables it.
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- If you are using PSFX with the printer directly connected to your PC via
- a parallel port (no LAN connection), you probably want to specify the Direct
- option. Unless you specify Direct, you cannot use the shift-PrtSc key.
- It is disabled. If the printer is connected via a serial connection, Direct
- is automatically assumed.
- Do NOT specify DIRECT with an IBM Token Ring!
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- If you want to use the shift-PrtSc key for illustrating manuals or anything
- else which requires the IBM graphics character set, you need the special
- graphics characters. Many programs use them to make boxes and other special
- displays. An Epson FX-85 prints them as italic characters. To print them
- as they appear on the screen, you can use PRTSCFX.COM. This is a useful
- public domain utility which is included on this disk. PRTSCFX.DOC is a
- brief summary of how to use it. Load PSFX.EXE before PRTSCFX.COM. For
- a graphics mode dump (G option in PRTSCFX), you must wait for the 30 second
- PSFX timeout before the page prints. There is no need to use the D option
- in PRTSCFX.
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