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From: steve@pmday_2.Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve Bridges)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Printing via AUX-port of terminal to printer, how is this done?
Message-ID: <780@pmday_2.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Date: 25 Dec 89 00:39:46 GMT
References: <1908@rivm05.UUCP>
Reply-To: steve@pmday_2.Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve Bridges)
Organization: NCR Corporation - USDPG Product Marketing (Dayton)
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In article <1908@rivm05.UUCP> ccea3@rivm.UUCP (Adri Verhoef) writes:
>
>  What I'm looking for is a program that can be used for printing
>to the AUX-port of a terminal.  [ much text deleted....]

On the terminals I am familiary with, there is some sort of prin screen
key.  The steps to do what you want could be broken down into a few simple
steps:

1.  Figure out what sequence of characters turns on the aux port of
    your terminal.  Perhaps a terminfo type database for your program could
    work.

2.  Send a byte stream to your terminal that gets sent back out the aux port
   (see step 1).

I have seen a program like this somewhere, but can remember how.


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