Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Sun, 29 Mar 1998 20:49:06 -0500 (EST)

On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
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>
> Wrong. You merely had to investigate harder. Those HP printers have nothing
> at all to do with Windows, and if you want to argue that point then please take
> a look at the protocol documentation and driver people wrote by snooping
> on the printer cables and the like.

I do know how to read as well as write from the "extended" parallel ports.
I also know how to read documentation. The new HP Printers do not run
HPGL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language), ASCII, or any "known" protocol
Instead, they run a Windows-Specific Protocol which is proprietary to
Microsoft.

If you, or others, have "busted their secret codes", it makes no
difference. You will not be able to use this hard-won knowledge except
for your personal entertainment.

I will not comment on this subject further.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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