my hp because it is HP PCL 5/6 you can dump text and formfeeds straight into
it, though because font sizes etc have not been set, text size is rather large
and duplexer is not taken advantage of.
also, my officejet printer is a network printer and uses HP SLP or HPLIP or the
port 9100 thing, it has a jetdirect. so I am not sure how I am going to print,
with usb cable or via network... ? not sure what to do with canon, epson,
brother, etc. maybe they use HP PCL5 also?
I suppose if you could telnet the text from stdin or something into the
printer? :-)
>________________________________
> From: Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de>
>To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers.
><freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
>Sent: Saturday, July 5, 2014 7:49 AM
>Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting started
>
>
>
>Hi Andy :-)
>
>> I've been a FreeDOS user on and off for > 10 years and am interested in
>> contributing but don't really know where to get started.
>
>That largely depends on what you would like to improve.
>
>> I currently work developing and testing printer firmware and software but
>> expect that this will be quite a learning curve from the QNX/Python
>> environments that I spend a lot of time in.
>
>I expect most printers to accept plain text to print,
>but there also is a DOS port of ghostscript for those
>printers who first need translation of input data...
>
>> Are there docs that describe the DOS programming API that I should start
>> with? Or bugs that I should poke at to get a more in-depth view of how
>> everything fits together.
>
>Yes, you can read the "RBIL", but again, it really does
>depend on what you want to do. If you want to write DOS
>software in C, or maybe port existing Linux software by
>using DJGPP, you do not have to know much about how DOS
>works internally. You will notice differences, of course.
>
>Regards, Eric
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse
>Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition
>Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows
>Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards
>http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft
>_______________________________________________
>Freedos-devel mailing list
>Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
>
>
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse
Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition
Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows
Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards
http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft
_______________________________________________
Freedos-devel mailing list
Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
