malc@equinox.unr.edu (Malcolm Carlock) (06/13/91)
Archive-name: unix/terminal/pl/1991-06-12 Archive-directory: unr.edu:/pub/pl/ [134.197.1.2] Original-posting-by: malc@equinox.unr.edu (Malcolm Carlock) Original-subject: Re: Printing from ELM to a printer attached to a PC Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article <1991Jun5.141703.522@cm.cf.ac.uk> cookc@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Chris Cook) writes: > >I've been trying to work out a way that you can print directly from Elm to >a printer attached to a PC. We have a utility here called PL which should do what you want, and in fact its main use here is probably printing ELM messages to PC printers. PL reads from one or more files or from the standard input, and prints directly to the terminal's printer port, if the terminal has such a capability according to the Unix system's termcap or terminfo database. Since PL uses termcap/terminfo, it can be used with any terminal that supports such operations, including PC terminal emulators (such as Kermit's VT102 and Procomm's VT100) that support the appropriate ANSI control sequences. PL comes with a set of terminfo/ termcap entries to support several terminals, including VT102, Heath-19, Qume QVT102, Freedom 100, Wyse 50, and several Televideos (hint: the TVI's all use the same sequence...) PL is invoked using 'p' in elm, and appears in the option file as follows: print = pl -q %s 1>&2 The -q option turns off chatty "printing to your terminal's printer" messages. The intent here is to not mess up the ELM screen. ELM seems to intercept stdout from print programs, so the 1>&2 is there to redirect stdout to stderr and get the data to the terminal no matter what. PL is ftp-able from unr.edu (134.197.1.2), in pub/pl. If you can't get to unr.edu using ftp, let me know and I'll mail you the shar file. Hope this helps. -- Malcolm L. Carlock Internet: malc@unr.edu UUCP: unr!malc BITNET: malc@equinox -- comp.archives file verification unr.edu total 19 -rw-r--r-- 1 malc 525 May 16 22:20 unpack-info -rw-r--r-- 1 malc 18121 Apr 1 20:19 pl.shar found pl ok unr.edu:/pub/pl/