Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!CSTROM@Simtel20.ARPA From: CSTROM@Simtel20.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Wordstar 3.3 patching? Message-ID: <408@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Jul-84 06:59:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.408 Posted: Wed Jul 25 06:59:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jul-84 21:02:31 EDT Lines: 16 I assume that you are outputting the data to the spooler quite a bit faster than 1200 baud, correct? Unfortunately, WS has a nasty habit of sending the character stream out the printer port at a very slow rate. I assume that at least part of the delay is due to processing for the target printer, but I would not be a bit surprised if there was some delay built in as well, allowing effective simultaneous editing while printing without hogging the resources of the CPU. I think you would find that the actual effective output is faster than 1200 baud; on systems with buffers and 1200 baud printers, the buffer does indeed fill, but certainly the effective baud rate is probably more on the order of 2400 baud or thereabouts (a seat of the pants guess). I will try to get some info on this out of my friends at MicroPro, but things seem to get more screwed up there every day, so don't expect much from that quarter.