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Rich Mellor wrote:Finally, the other problem to be addressed is how the QL will communicate
with the printer. Admittedly more and more printers have USB only
connection which means that they currently cannot be connected to a native
QL or the Qx0. However, this is down to the hardware designers to
overcome. QPC2 users can print to USB printers (not sure about the other
PC emulator users), but they still face the same problem that the printers
cannot handle text sent directly to the USB port. Therefore there is a
need for this software....
Peter Graf is work on network drivers for the Qx0. What happens if an application crashes while printing, is the PFF device block from further use.
Well that is good news at least - let us hope that they will be compatible with an ethernet card for the QL and possibly QPC2 (or even SMSQ/e). It would be a real shame if the only way that Q40/Q60 users can have access to these drivers would be to revert back to an earlier version of SMSQ/e (I know Peter has already stated that he won't use a version that was not written by Tony Tebby).
Don't know what will happen if an application crashes whilst printing - how many applications on the QL can crash whilst printing and still leave you with access to the QL?? Not many I fear - normally end up with a system reset.
What happens at the moment when this occurs??
-- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ
http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/
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