[mod.computers.vax] Plotter symbionts

CHAA006%vaxb.rhbnc.ac.uk@CS.UCL.AC.UK (09/20/86)

[I forwarded the INFO-VAX mail to a colleague who I knew has written a plotter
symbiont; this is the response]

Sorry, I can't help much.  We do have a plot symbiont, but the
command codes for the plotter are home-grown as we built the plotter
controller ourselves.  I can't send you the source of it as much of it
is duplicated in our network printing symbiont and I'm not allowed
to send that.

I would suggest that if the guy at Stevens College (if that's right)
has got his plotter plugged directly into an async port on his VAX, then
he just modify the existing symbiont and use PRINT/PASSALL.  If
he can get hold of the source of any user-written symbiont then that
should give him something to work from.

   Alistair Scolley.