[lug] Serial printer connection questions

[rm at fabula.de]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:19:32AM -0600, Chip Atkinson wrote:
> Oh, wait, you're right.  Still though, I'll look at the bios settings and
> see what is available.

Chip, i haven't followed the whole thread, but if you think that
tranmission speed is the problem here (and not printer memory) you
can easily test it by setting the serial transmission rate to
a lower value (2400 :-)
Also, you could run a silly little test:

  # --- file: my_throttle.pl ----
  #!/usr/bin/perl

  while(<>) {
    print;
    sleep 1;
  }

and then:

  bash $ perl my_throttle.pl < my_huge_job.ps > /dev/ttyS0

(substitute ttyS0 with your actual serial device) 
It might take a while for your job to finish ;-)

 Ralf

happy user of an old AppleStyleWriter (on a serial port)