NEC LC890 problems

[Mark Lawrence]

} In sun-spots v8i92, joe at islsun5.mse.lehigh.edu (Joe Sieczkowski) writes:
} | I was never able to get XON/XOFF to work proberly with my NEC LC 890
} | PostScript printer.  [...]

amdcad!cayman!frank at ames.arc.nasa.gov (Frank Gorishek) wrote:
} X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 103, message 11 of 14
  [about how to raise the line level voltages so that the computer
  would *see* the crummy XOFF's]

The way we fixed it was to buy a serial/parallel convertor buffer
box that you can buy at any PC store for ~US$100.  We hooked it up
at 9600 bps to the Sun configured to do XON/XOFF and hooked it up
parallel to the printer.  Everything works _reliably_.   I've been
pretty happy with the `ol brick outhouse (as somebody once described
the '890) since we did all this.

Take heart, things _do_ get better with SunOS 4.x as far as describing 
the modes you want on the serial line in your printcap.

   mark at DRD.Com                (918) 743-3013              Jer. 9:23,24
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