A user has an IBM PC with LocalTalk PC Card and is running WordStar
Professional 4.0. He wants to emulate an Epson printer using the
LaserWriter program, without having to modify existing documents. He has
run up against the inability to print overstrikes and the lack of a ".sr"
command
The factgs are that the LaserWriter program does not implement the WordStar
"overstrike" command. This command, basically, puts a backspace in the
text. Neither is the ".sr" dot command present.
ple FDHD) that restricts the media type to high-density disks.
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When using Apple File Exchange (AFE) and the SuperDrive, AFE does not
recognize high-density disks formatted as 720K disks in the SuperDrive.
The SuperDrive does NOT recognize a disk as a high-density (1.44MB.) disk
unless the disk has the "bonus" hole, which all high-density disks have.
This is a hardware feature of the drive--not a limitation.
High-density media are physically different from the standard
double-density media, and they are not compatible with each other. The hole
prevents the incorrect use of high-density or double-density disks with the
SuperDrive.
IBM systems and most compatibles will allow you to format a double-density
disk as a high-density disk and vice versa. This is not the case here.
There is no way to bypass this protection feature.