[SLUG] How to do a Custom Print Processor in Linux ?

2011-05-10 Thread David Lyon
Hi all, Background for this is that a client has a dBaseIV DOS accounting system that they will upgrade after the Senior Partner retires. Which is a decade or more away. Printing from DOS is the not negotiable part. For a few years, I've run a server on a Windows machine that intercepts LPT1:

Re: [SLUG] How to do a Custom Print Processor in Linux ?

2011-05-10 Thread Nick Andrew
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:53:00AM +1000, David Lyon wrote: Its all good until electrical contractors come and disconnect cables from the hub, and then the network goes, and it all breaks and users complain. It doesn't sound like a software problem. Now I want to move the rendering of text

Re: [SLUG] How to do a Custom Print Processor in Linux ?

2011-05-10 Thread David Lyon
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net wrote: then the network goes, and it all breaks and users complain. It doesn't sound like a software problem. In a sense you are right. But the subtlety of who's fault it is never goes to the person who kicked the wire out,