Copyright (C) 1998 by Marcin Dalecki <dalecki@cs.net.pl>

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                                 This is

                            	OOkkii - CCrrraacckk


           oki4w / oki4w-plus printer language to xbm translater

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    The simple program found in this directory serves only single one
    purpose:

	CRACKING and documenting the OKI4w GDI printer command language
	during the developement process for a propper UNIX/Linux driver
	for this device.


    Esp. anybody can use it to check if maybe some other of those GDI
    printers doesn't use the same communication language.  Despite of this
    it's of no other use then containing the best and most accurate
    documentation about the command language in question I can imagine of.
    
    	-> See the parser code and comments therein.

    It takes the raw output which will normally be send directly to the
    printer (or in UNIX speech /dev/lp0 :-) and renders it into a sequence
    of files called page{0..n}.xbm in the xbm format. The only reason, why
    I choosed the xbm format is the fact that it's simple like hell to
    use. Hard disk space and speed didn't matter for me, due to the fact
    that I'm quite well equipped.
    
    After the conversion please use any bitmap browser of your's choice to
    view the results.

    OKI / OKIDATA wasn't in any way involved in the developement of it.
    The fact that those fuckhead's didnt give me any documentation, made
    this program neccessary. It show's how little it need's to crack that
    simple protocolls. Tought, the compression method was the interresting
    part of it.

    	    	    	    	    	    	    	    Marcin Dalecki