From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Feb 25 17:37:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA02939 for emulation-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 17:37:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA02927 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 17:37:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id RAA13325 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 17:37:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA20311; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 12:06:05 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702260136.MAA20311@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Printing with pcemu1.93pre In-Reply-To: <199702242116.IAA00748@solsbury-hill.home> from Joel Sutton at "Feb 25, 97 08:16:21 am" To: suttonj@interconnect.com.au (Joel Sutton) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 12:06:03 +1030 (CST) Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk G'day Joel; I have your changes in hand 8) Joel Sutton stands accused of saying: > Has anyone done any work on direct printing since 1.93pre ??? No. > Would lpr or direct /dev/lpt[n] access be preferred by anyone? Or > perhaps both (a'la doscmd) ??? I would be inclined to have all output sent to a file, and have a hotkey of some sort which closes the file and sends it to lpr. The biggest problem is that there's no concept of 'closing' a print job or file with DOS. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[