Writing Window's device drivers from scratch is hard (much, much harder than for DOS). Take a look at the following link for a third party "fill-in-the-table-cells-and-then-compile" tool:
http://www.jungo.com/windriver.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bagotronix Tech Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 7:25 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Re[2]: Printer Driver (was - Protel EDA Forum... was adjacent component placement D XP) > Phillip: > > I already checked the www.linuxprinting.org website. No support for Toshiba > P351 in CUPS or Foomatic. They don't even list the Toshiba brand at all. > > If I knew how to write a printer driver for either Linux or Windows, and it > wasn't too difficult, I'd do it and give the printer driver away to the > world. There must be a fair number of Toshiba P351, P351SX, Tandy DMP2100, > etc. still out there and still functional. BTW, the Tandy DMP2100 was a > rebranded Toshiba. I remember one of the places I worked in college bought > a Tandy DMP2100 (the boss was a Tandy computer fanboy), and I was tasked > with writing some custom printing software to print out and enumerate > charity event tickets. Using Tandy Basic and the DMP2100 manual, in about 6 > hours of programming I had some awesome looking tickets. But that was ROM > Basic, pre-PC, and oh-so-long ago... > > I've never written a device driver for Windows or Linux before, only DOS. > So the learning curve might be a bit much for me, unless someone knows of a > "fill-in-the-table-cells-and-then-compile" approach to it. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
