Xref: utzoo comp.lang.postscript:6740 alt.sys.sun:2039 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!media-lab!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!midway!chsun1!kusumoto From: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,alt.sys.sun Subject: Re: Genuine Adobe on HP-II Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 90 21:45:07 GMT References: <1990Oct30.200442.5246@wsrcc.uucp> <21628@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 32 shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter) writes: >kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) suggested using >Transcript to solve a communications problem. I think you're >missing the point, Bob. Transcript won't work until one has a >solid serial communication channel. The best way to get this >working is to use a terminal emulator like tip or kermit to >talk to the printer. Only after this works does one have any >chance of making Transcript work. wait, maybe I missed something, like this printer wasn't actually connected to the Sparc. If you have the TRANSCRIPT software, you can compile it to create the proper files so that one of the two serial ports in the back of the sparc will be able to talk to the printer without any fuss about using tip or kermit or any other communications product. I'm also assuming that the people who use the printer are actually logged into the machine in question, which of course, requires the users to be at terminals (dumb or smart) and be connected to it using whatever means necessary (where terminal programs make sense). Those MS-DOS diskettes are only useful if you are at an MS-DOS machine connected directly to the printer (either its serial port or over a PC network like Novell Netware or Bayan Vines). It's almost useless if the printer is connected to the sparc and you're printing from the sparc (although it makes tons of sense if your at a PC with the sparc as a print server, but the software is only good on a PC). Bob -- Bob Kusumoto | Find the electric messiah! Internet: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu | The AC/DC God! Bitnet: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.bitnet | - My Life with the Thrill Kill UUCP: ...!{oddjob,gargoyle}!chsun1!kusumoto | Kult, "Kooler than Jesus"