ccastkw@gitpyr.UUCP (KENNETH E. WALKER) (03/19/86)
(* EAT ME *) or don't (* EAT ME *)
I'm looking for a daemon or some such thing to sit out in the memory of
an IBM PC-XT and intercept-then-translate characters being sent to the
printer.
What the story is, is that a friend bought his son an XT and a Toshiba
"3-in-one" printer. The printer does great letter-quality stuff, but
we're talking a 15 year old who wants something FUN and neat with graphs
and pictures etc.... The printer emulates a QUME "Sprint" (I've never heard
of it...) and doesn't like the output of most graphics printing programs.
Therefore I was elected (my friend's company is going to pay for my next
The daemon seems to be it in my experience, yet I don't know how to write
them. If anyone out there has such a wonderful device, I would be very happy
if I could get a hold of it> I will also be joyous if someone can just
point me in the right direction and explain what I need to do to create one.
Thanks in advance.
--
KENNETH E. WALKER
Office of Computing Services
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!ccastkwgpw@ihlpf.UUCP (Wilkin) (03/20/86)
> I'm looking for a daemon or some such thing to sit out in the memory of > an IBM PC-XT and intercept-then-translate characters being sent to the > printer. > > What the story is, is that a friend bought his son an XT and a Toshiba > "3-in-one" printer. The printer does great letter-quality stuff, but > we're talking a 15 year old who wants something FUN and neat with graphs > and pictures etc.... The printer emulates a QUME "Sprint" (I've never heard > of it...) and doesn't like the output of most graphics printing programs. > Therefore I was elected (my friend's company is going to pay for my next > > KENNETH E. WALKER > Office of Computing Services > Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 > ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!ccastkw Qume is the name of an outfit that sold many many daisy wheel printers. There is a company which I have seen in PC or BYTE, which makes a software program to download the IBM fonts. They also allow graphics to be printed. Maybe someone could post the name, DTI ???? -- ____ _______ _____ _______ ------- George Wilkin / __ \ |__ __| / _ \ |__ __| -====------ AT&T Network Systems | (__) | | | \ \ \_\ | | -======------ ...!ihpn4!ihlpf!gpw | __ | | | / \ __ | | --====------- IH 4A-157 | | | | | | | (\ / / | | ----------- work 312-979-4??? |_| |_| |_| \_____/ |_| ------- Naperville, IL
tj@utcs.uucp (tj) (03/21/86)
LPTX is a memory resident program that takes stuff and puts it in a file. Could just as easily filter it and send it off to printer.
brown@nicmad.UUCP (03/22/86)
In article <1565@gitpyr.UUCP> ccastkw@gitpyr.UUCP (KENNETH E. WALKER) writes: >(* EAT ME *) or don't (* EAT ME *) > >I'm looking for a daemon or some such thing to sit out in the memory of >an IBM PC-XT and intercept-then-translate characters being sent to the >printer. > >What the story is, is that a friend bought his son an XT and a Toshiba >"3-in-one" printer. The printer does great letter-quality stuff, but >we're talking a 15 year old who wants something FUN and neat with graphs >and pictures etc.... The printer emulates a QUME "Sprint" (I've never heard >of it...) and doesn't like the output of most graphics printing programs. A Qume Sprint printer is a daisy-wheel, letter quality printer. We have two Qume Sprint 9s here. That is one reason why it doesn't like graphics, as it doesn't support graphics. If the Toshiba is a dot-matrix printer, you will need to find the mode that is NOT Sprint compatible. Sorry that I can't give you any more information, as I don't know the Toshiba printer. Just wanted to tell you about the Qume printer. -- ihnp4------\ harvard-\ \ Mr. Video seismo!uwvax!nicmad!brown topaz-/ / decvax------/
connery@bnrmtv.UUCP (Glenn Connery) (03/22/86)
> (* EAT ME *) or don't (* EAT ME *) > > I'm looking for a daemon or some such thing to sit out in the memory of > an IBM PC-XT and intercept-then-translate characters being sent to the > printer. > > What the story is, is that a friend bought his son an XT and a Toshiba > "3-in-one" printer. The printer does great letter-quality stuff, but > we're talking a 15 year old who wants something FUN and neat with graphs > and pictures etc.... The printer emulates a QUME "Sprint" (I've never heard > of it...) and doesn't like the output of most graphics printing programs. > Therefore I was elected (my friend's company is going to pay for my next > > The daemon seems to be it in my experience, yet I don't know how to write > them. If anyone out there has such a wonderful device, I would be very happy > if I could get a hold of it> I will also be joyous if someone can just > point me in the right direction and explain what I need to do to create one. > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- > KENNETH E. WALKER > Office of Computing Services > Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 > ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!ccastkw See PC Magazine Sept 17, 1985 page 245. It has a listing for such a resident utility to translate graphics characters to other printer codes, but could obviously be extended to translate escape codes or whatever. If you have a modem you can download the source from the pc magazine bulletin board at (212) 696-0360... 300/1200-8-N-1. -- Glenn Connery, Bell Northern Research, Mountain View, CA {hplabs,amdahl,3comvax}!bnrmtv!connery