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2 total messages Started by sherman@induce.e Thu, 12 Mar 1992 19:16

#4044

Author: sherman@induce.e
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1992 19:16

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I'm looking for a text editor to run on a Color Computer (32K, I think it has)
that can handle sending out 1 stop bit on the serial port to a printer.
"Scripsit" can only apparently send 2 stop bits as (I think) it uses the
built-in serial port handling.  One editor that can apparently do what I want
is Telewriter-64 (I think).  But, I don't know where to go for something like
this.  I'd be happy to pay a reasonable price.  Can be either on cassette or
5 1/4" disk.

Thanks!

Steve

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#4039

Author: levinson@vax.son
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1992 13:09

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In article <1992Mar12.191013.26801@engage.pko.dec.com>, sherman@induce.enet.dec.com (My name is Steve Sherman) writes:
>
>
> I'm looking for a text editor to run on a Color Computer (32K, I think it has)
> that can handle sending out 1 stop bit on the serial port to a printer.
> "Scripsit" can only apparently send 2 stop bits as (I think) it uses the
> built-in serial port handling.  One editor that can apparently do what I want
> is Telewriter-64 (I think).  But, I don't know where to go for something like
> this.  I'd be happy to pay a reasonable price.  Can be either on cassette or
> 5 1/4" disk.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Steve
What you could do (if it is Color Disk Scripsit)  is print the file to disk
(using the spooling option), then just use a standard terminal program like
Mikeyterm to send the data out the bit banger.  There are many text editors
available for that computer, VIP, Telewriter, Deskmate, Scripsit, etc.

Hope this helps!

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