Using A Terminal Emulator within a Windows 95 or 98 OS, I can telnet to a Unix host, login, and run a terminal session.
Normally all data sent back to the terminal is displayed on the terminal screen; however, if I precede the data with the escape sequence, <ESC>[5i, and follow the data with the escape sequence, <ESC>[4i, then the first escape sequence redirects the data to the attached printer (auxillary port on an actual dumb terminal), and the second escape sequence redirects the data back to the terminal screen. Since I can use a Konsole session emulate a terminal and telnet to a Unix Host, I figured it would be possible to do the same thing; however, the special codes are not trapped by the Konsole to redirect data to the printer. It may even be that the esc codes are stripped by the Linux system. I cannot tell because I also cannot the data to a file to do a hex dump on it. Is there anyway to trap these codes using Konsole and do passthru printing? Passthru printing is a very flexible way to use remote printers. It means that the network administrator need not be concerned with them. TIA, John Hemmer PS. It also means that I can get away from using Windows.
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