[Coco] Printing from DW

[Nick Marentes]

On 26/10/2014 12:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> A wee bit perhaps. ;-)
>
> I have some bash scripts in use here, that take what I send to the /p that
> is setup in the bootfile as a drivewire channel.  In drivewire, I have it
> intercept that data and write it to a file, raw just like the coco sent
> it.
>
> One of the accessories to the script is a setup of inotifywait, one of
> linux's handier little utils, watching the location directory drivewire
> saves the file in.  When a file is closed, complete IOW, inotifywait sends
> my script a message containing the hashed name of the new file.  My script
> then scans the old jobs directory, deletes the oldest of 25 files, renames
> the just saved file according to my bookkeeping scheme, and saves it in a
> second scratch directory, then issues an
> "lp -dBROTHEHL2140 new name of file".
>
> Cups then processes the text, rendering it for that printer and sending it
> back down the cable to a hub on the coco3 desk which has this printer
> sitting on the top shelf.  Its a B&W laser, costs about a 100 $ bill, does
> 19 pages a minute, and its warming up the drum about 5 seconds after I get
> my prompt back on the coco from having typed "list filename >/p".
>
> Fastest printer I've ever had on my coco's, and since its a 600 dpi
> printer, none of the butt ugly 7x9 dot matrix fonts. Beautiful output, 10x
> faster than ever before.  Music to these old eyes.
>
> There's some earlier versions of what I am running on my web page, but I
> need to replace them with a tarball containing the latest versions.  In
> the meantime, you bash hackers can fix whats there to do it your way if
> you'd like.
>
>

Sounds like a lot of mucking around. Not worth the trouble.

I'll just use VCC to do the print.

Nick