phoebus phoebus wrote: > Dear members of the Debian community, > > I am currently on the lookout for a terminal emulator on Debian that can > handle controlled printing from a remote server often referred to as > "passthrough" printing. Our specific requirement is the ability to select the > printing device using a specific method, either the physical COM port or the > virtual COM port (emulated by a USB device). > > To be more precise, we want the terminal emulator to transmit data exactly as > it is received from a remote server (which is a Linux server) when it > attempts to print data through a set of escape sequences to send text in > transparent mode. This transmission should be directed to the COM device > without any modifications. > > Our application runs on Linux and needs to communicate with a specialized > serial printer by sending data directly to it through a terminal emulator on > a client machine (with the printer connected to the client machine's serial > port).
Would it be correct to say that you don't care about the "terminal emulator" at all, and merely need a way for the Linux server to send data over the network to a serial port on a remote Debian machine which is attached to a printer? If so, I direct you to the sredird package. -dsr-
