CompuServe Messages

Joel, I've recently tried to use the Apple 410 plotter with my Amiga, and I've encountered several problems. I used info you posted to make up a cable, and I wrote a simple file containing plotter commands taken from the plotter manual. When I "Copy file to ser:" everything seems to work ok. Next, I wrote the plotdriver file for A-size paper given in your CIS file. When I try to plot from Aegis Draw I run into problems. I inserted an "assign plotdriver: plotdriver.a" command in my startup-sequence on my bootable Aegis Draw disk (this disk was made by diskcopying a WB1.2 disk and then transferring the appropriate Aegis Draw files to this disk). When I choose the "Plot" menu item I expect a drawplotdump file containing the plotter commands to be created (I haven't figured out whether I must copy this to ser: from CLI to get it plotted or whether Aegis Draw makes the file and then sends it to the plotter). About a minute later I get a "Printer trouble" message of the monitor. Moreover, when I type out the drawplotdump file, it contains commands which don't correspond at all to the commands listed in the Apple plotter manual. The file does seem like the commands are reasonable (things like a PU x,y followed by four PM x,y commands when I intended to draw a rectangle – just what one would expect: a move followed by four draw commands) but they are not the commands the Apple plotter expects (it wants commands like MA x,y and DA x,y for a move absolute and draw absolute). I have no idea what to try next; it seems that the Draw pgm is creating a file based on another plotter or something. Do you have any ideas what I can try? BTW, when I assigned plotdriver: it was not clear to me what logical device the plotdriver is. I can't seem to find any references to the plotdriver: other than in another info file someone gave me. I didn't see any mention of this in your info file so I don't have a very clear picture of what is going on. My startup-sequence didn't choke on the assign command so I guess it's legit. Thanks Bill Christens-Barry