Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 16:48:17 +1100 From: Joel Sutton <suttonj@interconnect.com.au> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing with pcemu1.93pre Message-ID: <199702270548.QAA04682@solsbury-hill.home> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Feb 1997 12:06:03 %2B1030." <199702260136.MAA20311@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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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...
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