Donna Garverick <[log in to unmask]> on 02/25/2000 wrote:

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ok -- *personally* i agree with tracy's (and many others including hp)
assessment that releasing the hp-ib drivers is not really the answer.  *but* as
the chair of sig sysman -- i can't make this decision from my ivory tower :-)

so -- please tell me -- do you want this issue surrounding the hp-ib drivers on
the system improvement ballot?

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Donna,

Instead of us asking for something that HP says can't be done, why don't we ask
for a suitable replacement for HP-IB based printing?  My vote is on HP writing a
printer driver for the parallel port that is on the same card as the
single-ended SCSI card.  The port works fine for UNIX-driven printers so it
shouldn't be that tough to write a driver for MPE/iX-driven printers.  That way
we're sticking with an industry-wide interface and getting full use of the
add-on interface cards that we buy.  What do you think?

Just my two cents' worth,

John Hornberger
Sr. Systems Programmer
SPX Corporation
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