cca13@seq1.keele.ac.uk (G.D. Pratt) (11/27/90)
I need a program that will take in a Sun rasterfile and produce output to drive a Calcomp Colorview Thermal Printer. There used to be one, I think, in the public or sun-source directory at titan.rice.edu called "sun2calcomp" or something like that and was written by some guy who worked for an Oceanographic Institute somewhere. It was written in C/FORTRAN and need to be linked in with the correct HCBS library which I didn't have then but which I do now. Anybody know where this source is or whether there is a similar program around? - many thanks gerry -- gerry pratt -- workstation support -- university of keele email: gerry@seq1.keele.ac.uk * tel: 0782 621111 x 3290 "these opinions are mine, mine, mine....ALL MINE I TELL YOU!"
tim@bea.hssc.scarolina.edu (Tim White) (11/29/90)
cca13@seq1.keele.ac.uk (G.D. Pratt) writes: >I need a program that will take in a Sun rasterfile and produce >output to drive a Calcomp Colorview Thermal Printer. There has been a note on the Calcomp BBS in Anaheim for quite a while about a future printcap for SunOS. I doubt if we will see this anytime soon. Calcomp let every software analyst they had in the field go a few months back. By the way in your post you mention hcbs. You should be using the chcbs if you want to get all the capabilities out of the colorview. You only 16 pens with the hcbs as opposed to 1024. Also if you just want to send raster data to the 5912/5913 you don't have to have the calcomp libraries. You could just send scan lines with the appropos opcode at the front of each record. Should be in the software side of your manual. I hope you have a parallel port..... :-) Tim -- ============================================================================== Tim White University of South Carolina tim@otis.hssc.scarolina.edu Humanities and Social Sciences Laboratory (803)-777-7840 Columbia, S.C. 29208