kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe) (10/08/90)
Here's the deal: one of the professors here (Widener University) is teaching a graphics class, but he's teaching it in Turbo Pascal (I won't even begin to rave about teaching with an unsupported language). At any rate, one of the students came to me to see if she could try doing all of the work on the Suns (Yahoo!). So I taught her how to program in sunview and all of that good stuff, and so far it's been fine. But today he asked to have the plotter (an HP 7550A) hooked up to the PC network, thus hinting that he's gonna be giving some assignments that require it. Well, what of the student that's doing everything on the Suns? (And doesn't know Turbo Pascal) I can hook the plotter up physically with no problem. But what about actually using the thing? From my memory, much of using the plotter just requires sending ascii commands like PU (pen up), etc. Ok, I could teach her how to do that. Am I wrong? Is there anything funky required that I couldn't find in the plotter manual? (I'm not at the lab, so I can't RTFM til later tonight.) Anything out there that people have already done for this kind of thing? Oh, I'm using a Sun SS1 under 4.1. Appreciate the help.. Brendan Kehoe | Soon: brendan@cs.widener.edu For now: kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu | Or: bkehoe@widener.bitnet Last resort: brendan.kehoe@cyber.widener.edu