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- Subject: Re: NEC Pinwriter P20 driver?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.184532.14470@midway.uchicago.edu>
- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 18:45:32 GMT
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- References: <724517468.F00001@ocitor.fidonet> <1992Dec17.151401.14506@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Dec17.151401.14506@unix.brighton.ac.uk> je@unix.brighton.ac.uk (John English) writes:
- >I've got a NEC P20, and I've set it up as an LQ850. I normally use it for
- >listings so I use quick'n'dirty draft mode by default. That nice Epson
- >driver doesn't like that so it resets it to Courier at the start of every
- >file. I then hit select & reset the font (Courier is quite slow), but
- >then the next file starts & I have to do it again. Ho hum. Where are
- >all the real NEC drivers? (I've asked before but got no answers -- is
- >it my imagination or do only easy questions get replies? :-)
-
- Kludge workaround:
-
- Create a file with the necessary control code(s) to throw the printer
- into the mode you wish, then prepend it to any DOS/Windows-generated
- printer output.
-
- If I think of something that is more satisfactory, I'll follow up.
-
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