silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (03/20/90)
In article <20702@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (William David Haas) writes: >So, meanwhile, does anyone know how to do this? Is there a hacked version >of barrel that captures the parallel port? I may be missing something, but this is what barrel.tos does -- stuff that is destined for the printer port, which on my system is the parallel port, goes to a disk file. What does your copy of barrel do? -- Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2 UUCP: ...!{uunet,watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill Internet: bill%biomel@cs.dal.CA BITNET: bill%biomel%dalcs@dalac
dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (William David Haas) (03/27/90)
In article <1990Mar20.135500.6022@cs.dal.ca> bill@biomel.UUCP writes: >I may be missing something, but this is what barrel.tos does -- stuff >that is destined for the printer port, which on my system is the >parallel port, goes to a disk file. What does your copy of barrel do? >-- Ok, maybe I goofed. Let me restate the problem. I have CAD 3D. I also have the CAD 3D drivers and barrel. The output from the CAD 3D drivers is supposed to go to a plotter you have hooked up to your ST. The problem is I don't have a plotter and the software will not dump to a file. What I need is something that will capture the info going to the 'port you hook a plotter to'. I thought this was the rs232 port (modem port) and I thought that people referred to this as the 'parallel port'. The problem could be that the CAD software is expecting return codes from the plotter and barrel doesn't send these. Does anyone know how to convert CAD 3D files to some normal format like postscript?