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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

A very kind Czech programmer replied to my posting in linux-kernel about
the lack of a scroll buffer in mdacon.  He said this is because the older, 
plain MDA, cards did not have the extra memory available that VGA cards 
(and MGA cards) have.  I think this must be the memory used for graphics.
He will attempt to make an mdacon scroll buffer for me.

dmesg tells me I have a Hercules card with 8K of memory.  Not much to 
spare for a scroll buffer.

Ask and you shall receive.  It may have helped that I asked in Czech.

I have asked elsewhere for help in getting ghostscript to work with an 
extra driver that was not compiled into it, for the newer HP parport 
printers.  

I discovered that HP 670 works with deskjet djet500 laserjet and ljetplus 
drivers.  Probably HP500 series would do the same.  I tested on a file 
with text and some small images in it.  ljet2p driver does not work.