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Printer Problems

    19-Jul-88 04:10:31
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Jamie Severe 70003,302
Jamie, I don't know exactly what your problem is, but suspect that what you are seeing at the top of the page is an initialize string that is supposed to re-set the printer. If the Gemini isn't fully Diablo compatible, then it may not understand some of the commands and will give you strange characters like that. That's a guess, the only way you could find out for sure is to take a short ASCII file (like S/startup-sequence) and copy it to PRT: twice in a row. If the first time you get the garbage, but not the second…then that's the problem. If you get it both times…then something else is wrong and if you get it neither time…then Textcraft is doing something strange. Don