[Coco] OS-9 C was Re: 3rdPart Editor

[Stephen Fischer]

Gene, the intended destination for the text output is a disk file on 
windows which VCC will write for other output sent to /p after some 
setup in VCC.

No printers involved.

SHF

On 12/19/2018 6:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 December 2018 20:32:57 Robert Gault wrote:
> 
>> Stephen,
>>
>> I am using VCC 2.01b and HDirect runs as expected. Unfortunately I
>> just ran a test with DWire and while I have been able to get HDirect
>> to print to the screen, it will not redirect output to /p.
>>
>> I'll have to look at the source code for HDirect to see if it can be
>> altered.
>>
>> Robert
>>
> Drivewire doesn't come with a re-director because theres only 396
> kajillien printers, so I wrote my own and moved a cheap B&W brother
> laser to the basement, plugged into the same usb port off this machine,
> so the data stream from /p (the drivewire version of /p is in the coco's
> boot file) is captured and written to a 25 file round robin on this
> nachine, the closing of that file then triggers inotifywait, which
> launches a bash script that feeds that file to cups with instruction to
> use the laser.  Its rather neat when I'm working on some code and I want
> a paper copy, just list it >/p on the coco3, and about 4 seconds after
> the prompt comes back, the laser warms itself up and starts spitting out
> paper at 19 PPM.  Something like 100 times faster than any other printer
> I've ever had that the coco could use.
> 
> I think I've hacked on the copy of this I am useing, but theres a basic
> copy of it on my web page in the usual place. Modify to suit & send me
> electronic flowers, or bring 2 cold ones by and I'll drink one with you
> while trading war stories if you have any.
> 
>> Stephen Fischer wrote:
>>> The use of Drivewire is something I have not have thought about,
>>> perhaps might work.
>>>
>>> But wait, I found a bug in VCC that the VCC output capture of
>>> HDirect stops at the first line. Perhaps that has been fixed in one
>>> of the many VCCs around. That's why my attempts stalled. VC 1.42 I
>>> think was the version I used.
>>
>> <snip>
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