[Coco] e-mail app???

[Aaron Wolfe]

<FlushCommand>c:/path/file.bat</FlushCommand>

Or

<FlushCommand>c:/path/file.bat $file</FlushCommand>

If you want the file name of the print jobs content given as an argument to
file.bat.

Note the forward slashes.  It's got to be that way.

On Sun, Jul 5, 2015, 9:22 PM K. Pruitt <pruittk at roadrunner.com> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aaron Wolfe"
> Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2015 12:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] e-mail app???
>
>
> >I am not good at documentation.  here's info on the printers including the
> > flush command:
> >
> > In config.xml you'll find a printer section like this:
> >
> > <Printer category="printing">
> >   <Driver list="TEXT,FX80" type="list">FX80</Driver>
> >   <OutputDir type="directory"/>
> >   <OutputFile type="file"/>
> >   <FlushCommand type="string"/>
> >   <CharacterFile type="file">default.chars</CharacterFile>
> >   <Columns max="132" min="1" type="int">80</Columns>
> >   <Lines max="132" min="1" type="int">66</Lines>
> >   <DPI max="1200" min="50" type="int">300</DPI>
> >   <ImageFormat list="JPG,GIF,PNG,BMP" type="list">PNG</ImageFormat>
> > </Printer>
> >
> > Driver can be TEXT or FX80.  If TEXT, Drivewire just writes whatever
> > the CoCo sends to a file.  If FX80, DW sends it to an emulated epson
> > fx80, which then outputs image files.
> >
> > OutputDir and OutputFile specify where the output is created.  If
> > OutputFile is set, all output is written (appended) to the same
> > specified file.  Probably not what you want unless it sounds like
> > exactly what you want.  Most folks will not want to set it, and
> > instead will set OutputDir which tells DW to create new files for each
> > print job (or page, in FX80 mode) in the specified directory.  If both
> > are set, OutputFile wins.
> >
> > FlushCommand is any command you'd like executed after DW writes a new
> > file or appends to the OutputFile.  If the string '$file' is in this
> > command, it will be replaced with the full path of the file DW just
> > created.
> >
> > The remaining settings only apply to FX80 mode:
> >
> > CharacterFile is the font definition for the FX80.  The default
> > setting specifies an included file that matches the default font the
> > FX80 used.  Its a very simple human readable format.
> >
> > Columns and Lines define the dimensions of an FX80 text page.  You
> > could for instance change Columns to 132 to emulate one of those
> > really wide variants in the epson fx family, or change Lines to
> > simulate different paper length.  The defaults match what a regular
> > FX80 used on 8.5x11 paper.
> >
> > DPI and ImageFormat control the image files that the FX80 emulator
> > produces.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Aaron, or anybody who knows and cares to answer,
>
> Could you give an example of the format for the <FlushCommand
> type="string"/> command?
>
> I've been trying to get it to run a .BAT file after a file has been
> printed,
> but it just ignores the .BAT file. I've been entering the path/filename in
> every which way I could think of, both directly through the XML file and
> from within drivewire itself, but I'm obviously not doing it correctly.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
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