You can systematically change the slave printer on the remote
Accuterm PC using host-issued scripting, but you gotta be careful of
windows printer names with spaces. I dump check printing code directly
to a printer and then reset back to default using this method. I
seriously doubt a binary word doc will pass through without wrecking
the slave session, but you can ask Pete on the Asent support forum.
There is probably already a similar question on the scripting forum.
Glen.mobile
RewriteRule ^(garbage|junk)$ /$1 [NC,L]
On Apr 30, 2010, at 1:20 AM, Robert Houben <robert.hou...@fwic.net>
wrote:
Back in 1985/86 I helped design and develop a terminal emulator, the
first one for PICK, called PK Harmony (based on the PC-Harmony
Business Basic emulator family). We designed all these useful
escape sequences so you could have a PICK/BASIC program run a DOS
command, or drive a printer, either directly or through a "slave
printer" function. I'd like to think that modern terminal emulators
have a way to direct output to a printer, but maybe not. I've been
out of the terminal emulator end of things and into ODBC/JDBC and
successors for almost 20 years now.
They might pop up and ask you what printer to send output to, which
would be a bit of a drag. The more useful thing would be to be able
to ask the emulator what printers it has available and optionally
select one by name or ordinal, from the list. Then you could do
everything programmatically, without interaction.
These days I tend to operate from telnet, so I don't really know the
emulators, anymore.
-----Original Message-----
From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-
boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of McGowan, Ian
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Subject: Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer
I forgot the obligatory plug for pickwiki: http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RunAProgram
- this page has escape sequences for a lot of the common emulators...
Ian McGowan
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Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 6:25 PM
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If you can arrange for the terminal emulator to run a command, you
can fire off (for example):
"cmd /c start http://myserver/files/abc123.pdf";
And the end user's PC will launch the default browser and attempt to
connect to the web service. You set the mime-type to application/
pdf, include some magic javascript in the pdf to open up the print
dialog automatically, and Bob's your uncle. Closing the pdf is
tricky, we've left it to the user to do that. For word, substitute
macros for javascript (though the user will have to be prepared for
scary popups).
If you have full control of the client's environment, you can
install tools like doit (by the author of putty) and bypass the
terminal emulator bit.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/doit/
The other way we do this to send word, excel and pdf docs generated
by pick basic code is to simply email it to the user. Sometimes
there's no other options - there's a firewall in the way, security
won't allow other methods, etc. The users don't seem to care, as
long as they get a document in a few seconds.
Ian McGowan
925.609.2554
-----Original Message-----
From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-
boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 5:01 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer
Glen, so how is it exactly that an event on the server will trigger
this
transfer, open, print, and exit?
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