On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> > As Jerry Pournelle once said: "You can never have enough documentation."
>
> Indeed. Look on the CD/disks included with the modem. They prolly have
> electronic documentation on their somewhere.
While I rarely agree with JP, this is one case where I will. One thing
that I used to love were the manuals that came with your printer: every
escape sequence, every attribute, every everything. Nowadays? Nope.
"Here's how to put the CD-ROM in your drive, and load up your 37 TB
driver." Dammit: I want (for example) the escape sequence to enable
duplex printing on my HP 970CSE. I've e-mailed HP, I've spoken with
techs, I've begged and pleaded, I've offered to pay honest-to-God MONEY.
No dice. *Somewhere* this manual must exist... but I'll be durned if I
can find out where. It's really quite annoying. [While I have found docs
off their site that describe both PS and PCL duplex-enabling commands for
various printers, the PCL one sadly does not work on my 970. I actually
took a dump of Windows printing a two-line ASCII E-mail, in duplex mode,
and it was something like 40 KILOBYTES of initialization strings and the
like; clearly, Windows drivers have "progressed" to a point far beyond the
days when I had to send any and all commands to my good ol' Star Gemini
10X 9-pin dot matrix.]
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