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Rich Mellor wrote:Finally, the other problem to be addressed is how the QL will communicate
with the printer. Admittedly more and more printers have USB only
connection which means that they currently cannot be connected to a native
QL or the Qx0. However, this is down to the hardware designers to
overcome. QPC2 users can print to USB printers (not sure about the other
PC emulator users), but they still face the same problem that the printers
cannot handle text sent directly to the USB port. Therefore there is a
need for this software....
Peter Graf is work on network drivers for the Qx0. What happens if an application crashes while printing, is the PFF device block from further use.
Glad to hear it - its such a shame that Peter does not keep everyone informed of what he is working on - it might generate more interest in the Q40 / Q60. Plus someone might be willing to help.
It really is such a shame that there was such a big fall out over the smsq/e licence and as a result devices developed for the Q60 are not necessarily engineered to work on other systems as well and yet the Q40 /Q60 can still benefit from improvements in SMSQ/e (even if Peter and some others are not willing to use the later versions of SMSQ/e).
With such a small community, any divisions and arguments about Quanta are just more reason for people to forget about the QL entirely. We should all strive to work together, even if we don't always agree with one and other.
No idea what happens if the application crashes whilst printing - does this happen very often on a QL nowadays I wonder (without needing the user to reset the system anyway)??
-- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ
http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/
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