retrocomputing: driving 'miss' daisywheel

Stewart C. Russell scruss-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Mon Sep 27 01:22:04 UTC 2004


Thanks, all. I found the old termcap entries, and it's definitely not 
EBCDIC, as it just understood ASCII with CRLFs. A venerable polymath of 
my acquaintance (Ted Harding -- mathematician, linguist, troff guru) has 
offered some additional help, so I think I'm set.

The two biggest problems:

* my distro considers parallel to be a 'legacy device', which you have 
to build in support in the kernel.

* 9 ASCII characters are missing from the printer's repertoire, so no C 
source for me ;-)

thanks,
  Stewart
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