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From: Joel Sutton <suttonj@interconnect.com.au>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Printing with pcemu1.93pre
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Michael,

> G'day Joel; I have your changes in hand 8)

Good stuff. 

> > Has anyone done any work on direct printing since 1.93pre ???
> No.

Ok. Looks like I'm going to have some fun in my spare time. :->

> > 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.

Right. On that note it seems that giving pcemu direct access to the 
printer is the "easiest" way to go - but not necessarily the best 
way.  

Which key for a hotkey though? Could we consider having one hotkey 
which triggers a menu for doing things like closing the lpr pipe, 
reseting or whatever? I've seen this done with a dos based AppleII 
emulator. That way we only lose one key. It shouldn't be too hard to 
setup should it? It could be triggered from the process_events routine.
I'll have a fiddle anyway. 

With regard to the problem of the alt key on the tty version of 
pcemu - Am I right in thinking that we would need to make a new 
syscon kepmap for the alt key to work correctly? Perhaps having some 
sort of escape key might be that way to go? (eg ctrl-a c equals alt-c)

I'm good with the questions eh??? :->

Best regards,

Joel...