[Coco] printer ribbons

[John W. Linville]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:11:53PM -0600, Frank Pittel wrote:
> 
> Not sure if it's considered good form to respond to my own post but since
> making the original post I'm starting to think that better then conecting
> a printer to my coco I could conect the printer port on my coco to the serial
> port on my PC running linux. I would capture the output of the "printer" with
> something like minicom which I could later print my laser. Has any Linux user
> actually done this yet?

I would think that between stty, nohup, and a little scripting you
could setup a daemon on the Linux box that would read the serial port
and pass stuff on to lpr automatically...send me the script when you
are done? :-)

John
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