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From: bovet@hao.hao.ucar.edu (Ray Bovet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Redirecting output from serial port to a disk file
Summary: Get Barrel
Keywords: f_force, i.o redirection
Message-ID: <6664@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 90 00:03:13 GMT
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Organization: High Alititude Observatory/NCAR, Boulder CO
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In article <6510@sbcs.sunysb.edu> mrose@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Rose) writes:
>Hello Everyone!
>
>I am still trying to find a program to redirect output from the serial port
>to a disk file (to save postscript output from TimeWorks Desktop Publisher
>to disk).  If anyone knows of such a program please send me the file as
>soon as possible.  In the meantime my friend is currently working on a
...
Moshe Braner wrote a very similar program called Barrel some time ago to
capture output destined for the printer (thank you Moshe!).  I found it
relatively easy to use his techniques to capture output destined for a
printer on the parallel port, translate escape sequences intended for a
daisywheel printer into the appropriate codes for my HP Deskjet, and send
them back out to the serial port.  It would be very easy to convert his
original program to capture serial output to disk.  I would expect that
Barrel would be available on a number of archive sites.  If not I suppose
I could repost it here.

				Ray