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How Can I Set the Printer Serial Port?
Authored by: megumi on Jun 05, '03 04:48:34PM

One of the assumption made in this hint is "Printer serial port = /dev/cu.printer", but the file "cu.printer" does not exist in /dev/ directory on my machine. As a result, printing does not happen. How can I set the printer serial port to /dev/cu.printer?



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How Can I Set the Printer Serial Port?
Authored by: asknathan.com on Jun 14, '03 03:08:00PM

Serial ports will only show up if they exist and are recognized. For instance I have a G4 Powerbook where the only serial device is the built in modem so I only have cu.modem but not cu.printer. I assume that with a USB to serial adapter a device would be added when the adapter is connected. I will test this when I am have access to one. I assume the author is using a Beige G3 or other OSX compatible Mac with serial ports.



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How Can I Set the Printer Serial Port?
Authored by: beeandy on Jul 05, '03 01:10:24PM

In your terminal go to the /dev/ directory, and look for the correct name of your serial port.

In my case (PB G3 250 MHz), the computer has only one serial port called: "cu.modem-printer"

After setting this name, everything worked fine. I can print with my good old Stylewriter II using the serial port without any adapter. It´s great!

Andy



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