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# Tyd*Byts: Oliger Printer Port/Mscript Compatibility

If you have a slight amount of hardware expertise, here is a simple, no-extra-parts-required, modification for the JLO parallel port which provides support for the Centronics port PAPER EMPTY Status bit. This also eliminates the diode-ORed pull-down, which is, theoretically, a marginal technique (although it’s cheap and seems to work finе!). I don’t know if this is complete AERCO compatibility. It does provide all the status signals required by MSCRIPT’s AERCO compatible software.