Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:12:27 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: hackmiester / Hunter Fuller <hackmiester@hackmiester.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HI plotter (was Re: Help) Message-ID: <20060314190334.U9335@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <200603141758.27982.hackmiester@hackmiester.com> References: <000601c64658$9d474d80$2d01a8c0@fg> <20060314181318.L9335@tripel.monochrome.org> <200603141758.27982.hackmiester@hackmiester.com>
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, hackmiester / Hunter Fuller wrote: > On Tuesday 14 March 2006 17:25, Chris Hill wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, REINALDO JIMENEZ wrote: >> >> [ A more descriptive subject line is more likely to get you an answer. >> Lots of people delete 'Help' without reading. ] >> >>> My friend has a Houston Instrument Plotter Model DMP-50 and can not >>> get it running to print his school work (AutoCAD DWGs) >>> >>> Need driver? What he should look for? >> >> If your AutoCAD is anything like recent, you're running it under >> Windows. > Au contraire, or however you spell it! I am running 2005 under wine. You spelled it right. Beg pardon, I should have said that AutoCAD *thinks* it's running under Windows. I'm sure one could get it working under qemu or VMware as well. Point being that when you buy it you get a binary whose name ends in ".exe". One of the big appeals of AutoCAD (for me) used to be that it was available *natively* for many different platforms, including MacOS, at least one flavor of UNIX, and I think VMS, as well as Win/DOS. Those days are long gone. Any help for the OP, or are we just chatting? >> Autodesk haven't supported any other platform since Release 13, >> which was about 10 years ago. >> >> I set up something like this years ago, using an HI DMP-61 with FreeBSD >> 3.2 or 3.3. What I did was to install Samba on the FreeBSD machine, and >> set it up to 'share' the plotter (connected on an RS232 port) as a >> printer. Then the Windows clients were able to see the plotter as a >> networked printer, and use the native AutoCAD driver for that plotter. >> The FreeBSD machine was pretty much acting as a print server for that >> plotter. >> >> Sorry to be so vague, but it was a long time ago. Hope this gets you >> pointed in the right direction. >> >> -- >> Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org >> ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- > --hackmiester > Walk a mile in my shoes and you will be a mile away in a new pair of shoes. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFD/yYl3ApzN91C7BcRAoVVAJ97uhjh30nQ4hd9bQ90gJqiwsLEfgCeKSrg > bVfqEeJ09WhO6Y51WHEHb6o= > =VTUd > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: Geek Code v3.1 (PHP) > GCS/CM/E/IT d-@ s: a- C++$ UBLS*++++$ P+ L+++$ E- W++$ !N-- !o+ K-- !w-- !O- > M++$ V-- PS@ PE@ Y--? PGP++ !t--- 5--? !X-- !R-- tv-- b+ DI++ D++ G+ e++++ > h---- r+++ z++++ > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > Quick contact info: > Work: hfuller@stpaulsmobile.net > Personal: hackmiester@hackmiester.com > Large files/spam: hackmiester@gmail.com > GTalk:hackmiester/AIM:hackmiester1337/Y!:hackm1ester/IRC:irc.7sinz.net/7sinz > -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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