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From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Calling M. Braner
Summary: BARREL does _part_ of what you want
Keywords: Is this possible?
Message-ID: <5227@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 88 14:38:23 GMT
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Reply-To: braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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C. Zimmer asked if BARREL can help him save an ST screen dump, upload
to a (UNIX) mainframe, then print on a (color) printer.  Well, BARREL
will capture a screendump (upon Alt-Help) in RAM, and allow saving to
disk, in 'SCODE' format.  That is my own format that both compresses
(somewhat) and converts to printable characters only.  Thus the SCODEd
file is very suitable for e-mail.  The SDECODE program can decode such
a file and display it on the ST.  On the mainframe side I have a program
called CBW2PS that decodes, then converts to Postscript for printing
(C source available upon request).  It is called CBW2PS since it handles
monochrome screendumps only.  For other kinds of printers and/or color
dumps one would need to write different backends for CBW2PS (or SDECODE).

- Moshe Braner

PS: still need advice: what to do with my 7-month-old Atari SH204 hard
disk that suddenly died?