Hi,
The Braille and Speak produces plain text documents.
On the old hp printer which had a serial port, and still come from the
days
where all printers could print text if sent to it directly, the BNS was
connected directly to the printer.
I will try your suggestions with minicom or something like that.
I kind of hoped one of the others on this list has done it already.
regards, Willem
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Gil Andre wrote:
>
> Hello again Willem
>
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:16:06 +0200 (SAST), Willem wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Some clarification:
> > The Braille and Speak can produce documents on itself.
>
> What type of document? Word files? RTF? Plain ASCII?
> HTML? Wordstar? Some other exotic format?
>
> > My sister then wants to print these documents directly
> > from the device to a printer.
>
> OK.
>
> > The dos machine is connected through thin ethernet to the linux box.
> > I therefore want to create a setup where one can plug the serial cable of
> > the Braille and Speak into the linux box and give the print instruction
> > from the Braille and Speak so that the printer starts printing, using the
> > linux printer driver to drive it.
>
> If the DOS machine is connected to the Linux Machine
> through Ethernet, are you sure you need serial from
> Braille-n-Speak to the Linux box?
>
> It's probably simpler to transfer the B'n'S file to
> the DOS machine and from there to print on the Linux
> box.
>
> Otherwise, this is probably a job for Minicom/Seyon
> and some advanced scripting. You should be able to
> create a script that (a) opens Minicom, (b) gets the
> file from the B'n'S and saves it to disk and (c) auto
> prints the file for you on the printer.
>
> That should not be too hard to do, as long as you know
> what the format of a B'n'S file is.
>
> If you are into shell programming, you could probably
> do most of the same thing with a good shell script and
> the ZModem utilities.
>
> For more information:
> man minicom ("minicom -S" runs a script for you)
> man runscript (minicom interpreter)
> man rx, rb, rz
> man sx, sb, sz
>
> ... But you probably figured that out yourself... <grin>.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
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South Africa
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