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| 1743.1 | ... | MLNTSC::MILOS | Milos Roberto TSC Milan | Fri Oct 07 1988 08:20 | 7 |
| Alan,
I think it is time I put this version of LA50 driver in some public
accessible directory on the net (TAPE::?) as soon as I discover
where and how to put it I'll post a reply here indicaing where to
look for it.
Roberto
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| 1743.2 | here it is | MLNTSC::MILOS | Milos Roberto TSC Milan | Mon Oct 10 1988 14:18 | 3 |
| My (modified) version of LA50 driver should be appear in some directory
on TAPE:: RSN.
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| 1743.3 | | ELWOOD::PETERS | | Mon Oct 10 1988 18:57 | 7 |
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The new driver is in
TAPE::User1:[amiga.arc]myla50.arc
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| 1743.4 | Thanks for trying | DPDMAI::ANDERSONA | | Wed Oct 12 1988 03:51 | 23 |
| Thanks for trying guys but now that I can get at it it is corrupt.
This is what I get when I do a ARC V MYLA50.ARC
Name Length Stowage SF Size now Date Time CRC
====== ======== ======== ==== ======== ========= ==== ======
CompTrace 500 Crunched 17% 416 6 Jan 87 11:11a 6744
An entry in MYLA50.ARC has a bad header. 5 bytes skipped.
data.c 658693 Crunched 100% 1023 2 Feb 87 10:57p CEF4
An entry in MYLA50.ARC has a bad header. 11 bytes skipped.
dospecial.c 1328 Crunched 37% 847 1 Aug 87 10:35a 4335
An entry in MYLA50.ARC has a bad header. 2 bytes skipped.
init.asm 1283 Crunched 44% 731 19 Dec 87 8:44p 4F9E
An entry in MYLA50.ARC has a bad header. 4 bytes skipped.
I used kermit to down load from the Vax.
Thanks for trying
Alan
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| 1743.5 | Use XMODEM. | AYOV10::ATHOMSON | C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie | Wed Oct 12 1988 06:50 | 7 |
| Alan,
The copy of myla50.arc that I took from TAPE:: was in STREAM_LF
format and should have been downloaded using XMODEM if you left
it alone OR if you wanted to use KERMIT you should have converted
it using CVTARC first.
Alan T.
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| 1743.6 | I tried | DPDMAI::ANDERSONA | | Fri Oct 14 1988 00:39 | 10 |
| Alan T.
I am just a Field Service engineer. I only have a captive account and
can not get to DCL. They are kind enough to give us access to Kermit
but I cannot get to XMODEM and I can not get CVTARC to work.
I hate captive accounts!!!!!!
Alan
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| 1743.7 | Believe me, I sympathize. | DIXIE1::MCDONALD | Surly to bed, surly to rise... | Fri Oct 14 1988 01:10 | 12 |
| Not really a problem, Alan. I just moved from Software Engineering
(DECHeaven) to Software Services (DECHell) and they've given me
a captive ALL-IN-1 account. (Bet you're in the Southern Area.)
Give me a call at (904) 882-5665 between 7:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Central Standard Time. There are ways around almost ANY problem.
;-)
P.S. That's a customer site. Just ask for me.
John
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| 1743.8 | Thanks for the Fix | DPDMAI::ANDERSONA | | Sun Oct 23 1988 19:29 | 24 |
|
Thanks everyone for your help in getting this file. It did the
trick DMCS now prints the score properly and the notepad works right.
I ended up downloading it to a Rainbow 100 in the office with Poly
Comm. And I used to think Poly Comm wasn't worth the disk space
it took up. For all those others stuck in captive all in one accounts
you can down load files that Kermit mashes up with Poly Comm. You
must use the /B switch on the MSDOS side and the /I on the VMS side.
Example: XFR>MYLA50.ARC/B FROM MYLA50.ARC/I
Again thanks for all your help everyone.
P.S. Jessica.arc down loaded O.K. using this method so I guess it
wasn't a fluke.
Alan
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| 1743.9 | Installing the LA50 | PUGH::MCDONALDA | | Fri Nov 04 1988 06:32 | 5 |
| I've been using this driver for a while but still do not seem to
get readable graphics results with, for example, DPAINT. I've put
the driver into devs/printers/; I've got preferences pointing to
it, what else should I be doing ?
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| 1743.10 | Try grayscale not black and white | DPDMAI::ANDERSONA | | Sat Nov 05 1988 01:48 | 18 |
| I don't have DPAINT but I set preferences for gray scale and it
makes an nice looking output with GRAPHICDUMP. I played with the
Heart.ILBM picture that came with extras disk and some workbench
screen dumps. The notepad outputs clear text. Also my kids program
now prints his toys that he can build. Some colors wont print.
But that is a problem of trying to translate multiple colors in
to black and white something just don't translate.
By the way I just got WB1.3 and the graphic printing no longer works
with the LA50. It looks like it goes thru the motions but nothing
gets output. Also using CMD to redirect the printout to a file
nothing happens. Yet when I select any other driver the file is
created. So I guess CBM changed the way the drivers get graphic
data. Might have been something to do wiht their speed up. The
text output still functions O.K.
Alan
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| 1743.11 | Novice suggestions | CAPN::SYLOR | Network Magic | Sun Nov 06 1988 02:42 | 24 |
| I got DPaint to print to the LA50. I'm new to this Amiga, only
had it for a week. Some of the things that confused me
for awhile were:
The file comes out of the myla50.arc as la50.uue. You've got to run
uudecode on it to get the *real* la50 file.
Then to set the speed, you have to go into the Serial port speed
setting through preferences. Its not in the printer section.
The documentation with myla50 didn't tell me where to put the ****
file. After typing lots of dirs to the CLI, i found where to stuff
it :-) it goes in
devs/printers/la50
Some dumb questions.
What's that PrintInit icon do? I click on it, and nothing seems
to happen.
When I turn off the Amiga, the printer prints a few (5-6) garbage
characters. Any idea why?
Mark
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| 1743.12 | | LEDS::ACCIARDI | Dukakis should pluck his eyebrows | Sun Nov 06 1988 23:05 | 6 |
|
If you were in the middle of an application and wanted to change
some printer setings, PrintInit causes the new settings to take
effect.
Ed.
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| 1743.13 | LA50 and Amiga Dos 1.3 | DPDMAI::ANDERSONA | | Sat Nov 12 1988 01:01 | 14 |
| I found out what was keeping the LA50 driver from functioning under
1.3 you have to use the printer.device from 1.2. Then you can print
graphics once again. Of course the new graphics features won't
work.
I suspected that the garbage was from the power supply slowly dying
away. I rember somewhere in this notes file someone stating that
the -12V was only used for the RS232 port. I get a whole line of
garbage but I am using a 238 watt ex Rainbow power supply it would
take longer to die down.
Alan
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| 1743.14 | Will there be a fix for 1.3? | MQOFS::DESROSIERS | Tout est possible | Mon Nov 28 1988 12:46 | 7 |
| Will some programming genius (not me, I am just a pournelle {notice
the small p}) modify the LA50 printer driver so that it works with
the features provided with 1.3? please.
Jean
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| 1743.15 | Please ! | AYOV28::ATHOMSON | C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie | Mon Nov 28 1988 13:38 | 8 |
| 1743.16 | another small problem | DPDMAI::ANDERSONA | | Sat Dec 03 1988 17:29 | 24 |
| One other problem I have noticed with the LA50 driver. When you
are printing in graphics mode it will drop multiple blank lines.
For example from notepad I want this:
Line one
Line two
What I get is:
Line one
Line two
Graphic Dump does the same thing. This is with WB1.3 and the
printer.device from 1.2. I only had the new LA50 driver for about
a week before I got WB1.3 so I don't know if it had the same problem
or not.
Alan
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| 1743.17 | Doesn't seem to be a new bug | CAPN::SYLOR | Network Magic | Mon Dec 05 1988 03:52 | 3 |
| The same "blank line removal" problem happens with 1.2.
It happens with graphic printing from DPAINT also.
Mark
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| 1743.18 | Sixel Read program | DPDMAI::ANDERSONA | | Mon Dec 12 1988 00:55 | 134 |
| This may help a little with the problem of the LA50 Driver dropping blank
lines in graphic mode. If you use CMD to redirect the serial output to a
file and then print a graphic image using the LA50 driver you will get a
sixel file. This file can then be edited with a text editor like Emacs.
You can then place the Sixel Graphic New Line character in the file at the
appropiate places. This is the character ( - ) This will move the
printhead down the page six dots. The output of the LA50 driver does not
use the Sixel repaet character sequence. So I wrote a small program in
AmigaBasic to read a sixel file and output a file using the Sixel repeat
sequence instead of a repeated character stream. This not only makes the
file smaller but it also makes it a little easier to read the file under a
text editor in order to place your Graphic new line.
Simply run the program under AmigaBASIC it will prompt you for a input file
name. It will then go and output a converted file with a .SIXEL added to
the file name.
Then you edit the .SIXEL file and place the ( - ) where you want it. This
is trial and error as of yet. I am thinking of converting my GWBASIC sixel
file display program that I wrote a couple of years ago. That way you
should be able to see the sixel file on your screen before it is printed.
REM Sixel Conversion Program
REM Alan S. Anderson November 17, 1988
REM The purpose of this program is to read
REM A sixel file and output a smaller sixel file
REM using the Sixel repeat character sequence
REM This will make the file smaller and easier to modify
Startmain:
InName:
CLS
LOCATE 2,5
INPUT"Enter Sixel file to read"; Infile$
IF Infile$ = "" GOTO InName
OPEN "I",1,Infile$
x = 0 : Quit = 0 : C = 0 : CountIt = 0
OPEN "O",2,Infile$+".Sixel"
FOR d = 1 TO 5
IF EOF(1) THEN EndProgram
I$ = INPUT$(1,#1) : I = ASC(I$) ' read the first char
IF I = 144 THEN
x = 1 GOTO 400 ' DCS char
ELSEIF I = 27 THEN
GOTO CheckStart ' <ESC> Char
ELSEIF I = 80 THEN
GOTO CheckStart ' P char
ELSEIF I = 113 THEN
GOTO CheckStart ' q char
END IF
NextChar:
NEXT d
CheckStart:
x = x + 1
IF x = 3 THEN
GOTO StartFile ' x = 3 for sixel mode
ELSE
GOTO NextChar
END IF
LOCATE 4,1 : PRINT "The first five characters do not contain the Escape"
PRINT "sequence to turn graphics mode on. Please check the file"
END
StartFile:
PRINT #2, CHR$(27)+"Pq" ' turn on graphics mode in OutFile
ReadFile:
IF EOF(1) THEN EndProgram
I$ = INPUT$(1,#1) : I = ASC(I$) ' read a char
NoRead:
IF I = 13 THEN
GOTO OutFile ' <cr>
ELSEIF I = 27 THEN
Quit = 1 : GOTO OutFile ' <esc> char
ELSEIF I = 156 THEN
GOTO EndProgram ' ST Sixel exit char
ELSEIF I = 92 AND Quit = 1 THEN
GOTO EndProgram ' Sixel Exit Character
ELSEIF I = 33 THEN
GOTO OutFile ' DECGRI repeat introducer
ELSEIF I = 34 THEN
GOTO OutFile ' DECGRA Raster Attributes ignore it
ELSEIF I = 36 THEN
GOTO OutFile ' DECGCR Graphic caraiage return
ELSEIF I = 45 THEN
GOTO OutFile ' DECGNL Graphic newline
ELSEIF I => 63 AND I =< 126 THEN
GOTO Count ' Graphics character
END IF
GOTO ReadFile
OutFile:
IF I = 45 THEN
PRINT #2, I$
ELSE
PRINT #2, I$;
END IF
GOTO ReadFile
Count:
Count = 1 ' Set up count
Keep$ = I$ ' Save Sixel Char in ISave$
Keep = ASC(I$)
ReadIt:
IF EOF(1) THEN EndProgram
I$ = INPUT$(1,#1) : I = ASC(I$) ' read next sixel char
IF I = Keep THEN ' compare with previous
Count = Count + 1 ' if same inc count
GOTO ReadIt
ELSEIF I <> Keep AND Count = 1 THEN ' if not and previous was
PRINT #2, Keep$; ' not a repeat print previous
GOTO NoRead ' go back to evaluate I$
ELSEIF I <> Keep AND Count > 1 THEN ' if not same and previous was
C$ = STR$(Count) ' a repeated chararter
Length = LEN(C$) ' get the count into a
Count$ = RIGHT$(C$,Length-1) ' string and then print it
PRINT #2, CHR$(33);Count$;Keep$; ' with the repeat prefix
GOTO NoRead ' go back to Evaluate I$
END IF
EndProgram:
PRINT #2,"\"
SYSTEM
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