cbz@mhuxu.UUCP (Craig B. Ziemer) (06/14/88)
I recently bought an Okidata Microline 292 Color Dot Matrix Printer for my PC at work. I would like to do the following. Display a color graphic of some sort on my 520ST at home. Dump the screen to a file. Upload the file to the UNIX mainframe I use at work. Download the file to my AT&T 6312 WGS PC (IBM compatible) at work. Print the picture on my new color printer. The documentation that came with the BARREL program by M. Braner suggests that BARREL can be used for just this type of thing. Moshe, have you (or anyone else) tried this? I would appreciate any suggestions before I start working on it myself. Thank you. Craig Z. at AT&T mhuxu!cbz
braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner) (06/20/88)
[] C. Zimmer asked if BARREL can help him save an ST screen dump, upload to a (UNIX) mainframe, then print on a (color) printer. Well, BARREL will capture a screendump (upon Alt-Help) in RAM, and allow saving to disk, in 'SCODE' format. That is my own format that both compresses (somewhat) and converts to printable characters only. Thus the SCODEd file is very suitable for e-mail. The SDECODE program can decode such a file and display it on the ST. On the mainframe side I have a program called CBW2PS that decodes, then converts to Postscript for printing (C source available upon request). It is called CBW2PS since it handles monochrome screendumps only. For other kinds of printers and/or color dumps one would need to write different backends for CBW2PS (or SDECODE). - Moshe Braner PS: still need advice: what to do with my 7-month-old Atari SH204 hard disk that suddenly died?