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- DJ_ON is a small program that allows you to turn on a DeskJet or DeskJet
- plu sprinter after you booted your ST. The code was taken from an
- accessory written by Diana & Paul Close. I changed the way supervisor
- mode is entered and removed the assory code. It compiles with Turbo C.
- Chris Evelo (MFAGKCHR@HMARL5)
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- When you turn on your DeskJet Plus printer *after* your ST has been booted,
- the printer and the ST won't talk to each other and you can't print
- anything. The only way, until now, of solving this problem was to reboot
- the ST (leaving the printer on).
- When the printer has been turned on *before* the ST is booted, they will
- talk to each other just fine. As long as you don't turn off (and on again)
- your printer, you'll be just fine. I, for one, don't like to leave my
- printer on all the time. I like to be able to ``compute away'' and turn on
- the printer only when I actually need to print something. So far, with a
- DeskJet Plus, this has been impossible.
-
- My husband (Paul Close) and I wrote the following little desk accessory to
- ``reset'' the printer port and get the DeskJet and the ST talking again.
- (That's not exactly what it does, but it's close enough.) Much thanks to
- Moshe Braner for his desk accessory template.
-
- We've included the source code so that you can modify and ``pretty-up'' the
- DA to your liking. Currently it just blinks the screen when a reset is
- performed--we didn't add any desktop messages saying ``printer reset'' or
- anything like that.
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