Ok, I give up. After months and months of looking for a solution I guess if your a Mac user there is no software to let you send a simple text file to a print server reliably. FutureBasic, RealBasic and CodeWarrior can't do it. Oh, well maybe CodeWarrior could...I even offered to pay a guy something for some help re-writing a simple C program that could probably do what I want. I was thinking $100 to $150 for a couple hours of his time. He said he'd have to charge probably $10,000!!!
MacPearl? Seems to be a noble project. But I don't think it supports TCP/IP. I'm told the code I posted runs fine on other versions of Pearl. Geez....all I'm trying to do is avoid switching to a PC for this application....which I could probably get used for free somewhere. Just that printing from a Mac on my network is easier to do. Besides, this PrintMate print server generates so much traffic on my network it's pathetic. Literally every 2 seconds its broadcasting to every AppleTalk device on my network! I did try to find out why...but the programer they hired to write the software for the PrintMate no longer works there. I may also be able to rig up a serial-to-parallel converter and get a 50' cable just for this. Kinda defeats what I was trying to do...which I literally thought would take only about 20 to 40 lines of code. Welcome to the world of Mac network applications: If you are not an Apple employee don't waste your time. Jeff-
