laser-lovers@uw-beaver (10/08/85)
From: Milo Medin (NASA ARC Code EDN Advanced Systems Group) <medin%orion@ames.arpa> Folks, anyone out there have experience using the imagen in daisy mode? I have an 8/300 here with a daisy driver on floppy, but no software from Imagen drives it. So I changed the printer langauage to daisy and tried spooling an ASCII file to it. It just bombed and printed the job header. Any ideas as to whats going on? Does the Tek stuff work similarly? Better still, anyone have a working filter for daisy mode on the 8/300? Thanks, Milo
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (10/09/85)
From: Robert A. Dukelow <dukelow%cod@nosc.arpa> I have been using the daisy mode from an IBM-PC/XT for some time now. I am using the Perfect Formatter program (part of the Perfect Writer package now sold by Thorn EMI) which is sort of a SCRIBE subset to do the formatting and a Turbo Pascal program I wrote to implement the Byte Stream Protocol and send it out over one of the COM ports. It's not real exciting since the Imagen daisy mode doesn't really implement many of a real daisy's capabilities and the software I wrote is on the slow side (I think I know how to speed it up by a factor of 4 or 5 but haven't had the time or incentive yet). If any of this is of interest to you then I will be glad to supply more information (including the code that I wrote). Your message was passed on to me by a co-worker. I do not read laser-lovers so respond to me directly. Bob Dukelow (dukelow@nosc)
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (10/09/85)
From: Christopher Schmidt <SCHMIDT@SUMEX-AIM.arpa> Both the daisy and the tek emulation work fine for us. Mostly we use impress and printer languages. We resort to daisy mode when we want to change the type size of a line-printer type output, but we don't do anything sophisticated with it (for sophistication we use impress). We use tektronix mode to print out files generated with Ivor Durham's TOPS-20 PLOT program. [We run version 1.9 on our Imprint-10 and version 2.1 on our 8/300's and spool to the printers (which are all on ethernets) from DEC-20's, vaxen, and Xerox D-machines using TCP/IP.] --Christopher -------