on 10/18/02 11:20 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said: You are making many incorrect assumptions here.
> 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. This is not an OS, or development environment issue, per se. The main issue is whether there are drivers available for the Mac to support the particular print server, or whether the print server is Mac-aware. Not all print servers are alike, so it is not always a matter of a one size fits all solution. > 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. This would indicate that your print server is AppleTalk-aware. AppleTalk is chatty, but its packets are very small. You would likely use more bandwidth using TCP/IP, or NetBEUI for that matter. Further, since the server is AT aware it is Mac aware, which means that printing to it should be trivial. Normally, the Mac system would treat it as any network printer. If, however, the printer doesn't show up in the Chooser, it is likely that client software is required (such as drivers). Again, this is a vendor issue ad whether adequate drivers are provided. > 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. The code required to print with any of the environments mentioned above (top) should not take any if just a little more lines of code. Keary Suska Esoteritech, Inc. "Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
