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Franklin Eekhout wrote:
> It depends on the deskjet involved. Some deskjets were windows printers,
> that is that all processing was done in windows on the pc and it drove the
> printer mechanism directly. I seem to recall the 820cx was so and if you
> have one you are lost. Any other will understand plain ascii. But you 


The deskjet model I have is 710C.  It even has problems with the DOS
commands like:  copy autoexec.bat lpt1
The manual says it should be able to do this. Some times I get half a
page printed other times nothing comes out.
In Minix I would like to be able to do:
   pr -n source.c | lpr
and a black and white rough draft is all am after.
