vic@grep.co.uk (Victor Gavin) (12/07/90)
I've just got hold of a JetScript board for a PC. I have a LaserJet II and an 386 unix box (SCO) and would like to connect them together. Can anyone help me ??? vic -- Victor Gavin <vic@grep.co.uk||vic@grep.uucp||..!ukc!grep!vic||+44 532 500303> Grep Limited, Kirkfields Business Centre, Kirk Lane, Leeds, UK, LS19 7LX
woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) (12/09/90)
In article <1990Dec06.171411.25084@grep.co.uk>, vic@grep.co.uk (Victor Gavin) writes: > > I've just got hold of a JetScript board for a PC. I have a LaserJet II and > an 386 unix box (SCO) and would like to connect them together. > > Can anyone help me ??? I don't think so. Jetscript holds the interpreter on disk, and requires it to be downloaded to the controller board. Since there is no information available as to the format required, and as to the port addresses and what type of port, it is going to be difficult to do this under anything other than MS-DOS. There is a loader with the Jetscript board that runs under DOS. At anyrate, once you have managed to send the interpreter to the jetscript board, then you have another problem. The driver for the board installs a virtual printer device on the pc. It is a device handler that behaves like lpt3. If you print (using DOS) to lpt3 you get Postscrpt, if you print to lpt1 you get hp. There is some magic going on within the driver code. The long and the short of it, is that Jetscript is MS-DOS specific. If you are trying to use it on unix you are basicaly out of luck. Cheers Woody