[Coco] new printer sub system for NitrOS-9

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 08 January 2014 16:51:05 Aaron Wolfe did opine:

> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 January 2014 14:40:38 iggybeans at comcast.net did opine:
> >> Has anything been done to make NitrOS-9 more compatible with current
> >> printers? Obviously, something as complicated as a CUPS port would
> >> probably be too resource intense, but while it seems extreme I could
> >> see the utility in a PCL compatible driver. Even adding a parallel or
> >> USB port does not look that difficult with all the mcus that could be
> >> used to drive a printer port. Obviously I'm not likely to be able to
> >> gain much support for other enhancements, but trying to use a legacy
> >> printer is not a good solution, so I wouldn't mind pushing for this.
> > 
> > You can do it right out of dw.  I have a couple of co-operating bash
> > scripts.
> > 
> > Put the dw version of /p in your boot file.
> > 
> > Configure the dw server to save what comes up that channel as a text
> > file to your hard drive, putting it in a dedicated subdir, which I
> > have 2 of. Then the top level script forks a copy of inotifywait,
> > watching that subdir.  And sits there sleeping until the fork returns
> > with a filename.
> 
> As a simpler alternative, you can specify a command using the
> FlushCommand option in your config.xml.
> 
> DW will execute the specified command after a page is printed.  If
> present, the literal string $file is replaced with the full path to
> the file just printed.
> 
> So:
> 
> <FlushCommand>/do/my/awesome/thing.sh $file</FlushCommand>
> 
> for example.
> 
> This setting is definable per printer, and you can define as many
> printers as you like, so if for instance you have 2 physical printers
> you could make two corresponding printer defs in config.xml, each with
> a command that sends the file to the respective printer.  You can then
> toggle between them at the OS9 command prompt with the dw command or
> in the DW GUI.
> 
> -Aaron

Kewl Aaron.  But you keep sneaking in these bells and whistles without ever 
telling anybody.  Good docs are the cats meow.  Really good docs are an 
artform. :)

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