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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Print Streaming (was Re: Deskwriter usage)
Message-ID: <2246@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 90 16:24:19 GMT
References: <256@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <160700096@primerd> <16638@well.sf.ca.us> <1990Mar14.041825.18302@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <16701@well.sf.ca.us>
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In article <16701@well.sf.ca.us> svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:
>In article <1990Mar14.041825.18302@Neon.Stanford.EDU> kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) writes:

>	HOWEVER - for those of us who write software which must emulate some-
>thing which is _NOT_ a Macintosh, then there is most certainly a need for this
>feature.  What do I tell my users who ask why they can buy a VT100 dumb terminal
>which will do the right thing when talking to their host, as will the PC next
>to them - but you can not do that with a Macintosh....'Sorry Apple fealt that
>you didn't need to do that....'
>	When a host asks me to print (by sending me a command sequence), it 
>does not know that I am a Macintosh - it only knows that I am a VT100 (for 
>example) and as such it expects me to work exactly like every other VT100
>out there.  This means that I must STREAM my text to the directly connected
>printer.  Now it is true that doing this to a page based printer makes not 

	So why not spool to a local disk file, and then image the text from
that file using the high-level calls? There's no need to pose a dialog;
just use the default print settings. 

R.



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