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From: exodus@uop.edu (G.Onufer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Print redirection routine
Message-ID: <997@uop.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 88 01:53:38 GMT
References: <8801271313.AA10750@lasso.laas.fr>
Organization: UoP-- Sun Lab Administration
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Summary: Is this possible?

In article <8801271313.AA10750@lasso.laas.fr>, ralph@lasso.UUCP (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:
> Subject: Print redirection routine
> I am quite new, and still naive, to my Atari ST.  I have programs that either
> only output to the screen or to the printer port!  So as not to reinvent the
> wheel, what I'm looking for is an assembler or C program which would redirect
> the output of one of these programs to an ascii file rather than the printer.
> You see, I don't have a printer locally on my Atari.  Thanks a million.
> 

Anybody think it would be possible to install a trap handler to intercept
the calls to output to the printer and send the output to a file?  Perhaps
a desk accessory (Yet Another DA!) like Tom Hudson's Hard Disk Write Protect
DA?  There are quite a few programs out there that do not have the option to
print to a file...and since I have an FX-80 and the school has a laser
printer, I usually try to print to a file and upload to the school's
system (The laser printer emulates an Epson in any case).

Any ideas?

Greg Onufer
exodus@uop.edu