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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: digitized pictures into a file for printing on a vax?
Message-ID: <1473@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Apr-87 13:36:10 EST
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1473
Posted: Thu Apr  9 13:36:10 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 13:39:03 EST
References: <2749@sunybcs.UUCP> <1649@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
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Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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Keywords: digitizing amiga, printing vax and QMS

In article <1649@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) writes:
>In article <2749@sunybcs.UUCP> ugmiker@sunybcs.UUCP (Michael Reilly) writes:
>>I am wondering if there is a program out there that will take a 
>>screen and digitize it and put the corresponding data into a file,
>>instead of to a printer, so that the picture can be sent to another
>>machine and then print it on that machine's lazer printer...
>
>I haven't seen anything that will do this.  If you had an Amiga printer
>driver for a compatible printer, you could select SERIAL printer in
>Preferences, and connect a terminal with serial file capture facilities
>to the Amiga's serial port.

On a similar subject, has anyone out there produced a printer driver
that will write its output to a file?  I only have a Canon1080a at home
which is a S-L-O-W printer but produces great looking output in color.
What I want to do is redirect someone else's program's print to a file
so I can upload the file to a VAX and print there.

I've recently come across a pretty neat disk cataloging utility on a
local BBS (object code only).  I'd like to write it's printer output
to a file and upload it to the VAX for printing on a high speed line
printer.  Unfortunately, like many Amiga programs, they're just calling
the dumb dumb one-size-dosen't-fit-anyone-but-the-original-author canned
print, not allowing for things like printing to a disk file.

Or are there other hacks that will get this kind of job done?  (somehow
redirecting serial device output or something like that)?  That's the
ticket, how about a loopback plug on the serial port and a second CLI
with some sort of 'copy ser: foo.txt' command (yuk!).  Or maybe I can
dial up the vax, do a 'cat >foo.txt' and then bail out of my terminal
emulator, load up the other program (assuming I don't have to reboot)
and do the print with printer configured as a generic serial.  When
it's done, re-fire up the terminal emulator and type a ctrl-D. (yuk too!).

Sigh...  Just trying to get from A to B.

Keith Doyle
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