On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 07:56:21PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 05:50:05AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> I often have forms to fill out and some would be better not > >> hand-written. However, they all differ so I can't just set-up a > >> template. > >> Does anyone know of an app that will give me an interactive session with > >> my Epson dot-matrix printer? I could feed that in (its an LQ-2080 and > >> will do plain paper), use the enter key in the traditional typewriter > >> way, etc. > >> > >> It shouldn't be too big a deal to do, I just figured I'd see if there's > >> already a solution before I try to reinvent a very old wheel. > > > > Very interesting. While I am not aware of any such app, doesn't > > "cat > /dev/lp0" (or equivalent) work? > > That would probably work in a "line mode" sort of way. That is you > could get one line at a time. But that wouldn't help with horizontal > position. You likely need a way to send each character individually so > that you could space-bar your way across the page to the next blank. > > There is a technical manual that *almost* qualifies as a technical I have the technical document.
Since I can just send regular ascii to print regular ascii, presumably it accepts spaces and carriage returns (I don't know if it accepts other ascii controll codes for movement, but I won't remember those and typewriters don't have those either (well, I suppose line feed without carrage return would be helpfull). Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
