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Date: Sun 29-Dec-1989 00:29:17 From: JOE@oregon.uoregon.edu (Joe St Sauver) Subject: Dot Matrix Printer Connection Info I recently came into a parallel IBM Personal Computer Graphics Printer (parallel edition) and a Black Box Serial to Parallel converter. Foolish being that I am, I'd like to be able to hang this printer off my NeXT on /dev/ttya since I have no other printer directly connected to the machine. I've read all the relevant NeXT-supplied info, and the printcap and tty(4) man pages, but for some reason this undertaking has assumed mythical/legendary difficulty and has stumped me (and the local UNIX hacks)... All I want is to be able to say: % lpr foo.bar and have text file foo.bar print on the printer. No PostScript, no graphics, nothing fancy... Just plain text file output. The converter between the NeXT and the printer is supposed to be fed 9600 baud ASCII with 8 data bits, no parity, and 1 stop bit. If anyone could fix me up with the relevant printcap-format file for netinfo, and any other info they think might be relevant, I'd be eternally grateful. [I've looked through past News postings and looked at the November postings on this topic, but I can't figure out how to get the relevant word length and parity settings...] Thanks, Joe St Sauver (JOE@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU or JOE@OREGON) Statistical Programmer and Consultant University of Oregon Computing Center
Date: Sun 02-Jan-1990 18:27:58 From: cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) Subject: Re: Dot Matrix Printer Connection Info Is there any program like "Adobe Type Manager" for NeXT but to use with dot matrix or ink jet sort of printer. I think NeXT's already got the converter of postscrip to bitmap, then all we need is a short driver that send these "generated" data to the printer with printer's graphic command. Hope this is true.
Date: Sun 02-Jan-1990 18:27:58 From: cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) Subject: Re: Dot Matrix Printer Connection Info Is there any program like "Adobe Type Manager" for NeXT but to use with dot matrix or ink jet sort of printer. I think NeXT's already got the converter of postscrip to bitmap, then all we need is a short driver that send these "generated" data to the printer with printer's graphic command. Hope this is true.
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