Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 23 Feb at 18:10 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 02/23/08 10:09, Chuck Rhode wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:02:24AM -0500. My reply is below. Perhaps I can get away without the VT520 if I can tell unix to use the

Signatures (was Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?)

2008-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/08 07:03, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 23 Feb at 18:10 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA (Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and make them

Re: Signatures (was Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?)

2008-02-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 24 Feb at 14:43 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 02/24/08 07:03, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 23 Feb at 18:10 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA (Women are) like

Re: Signatures (was Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?)

2008-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/08 09:04, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 24 Feb at 14:43 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 02/24/08 07:03, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 23 Feb at 18:10 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL

Re: Signatures (was Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?)

2008-02-24 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it is a side-effect of signing, because when I look at Reply emails that I have *not* signed, they do *not* have the added ^- . So, I'd take one of these emails and show it to the Gemini developers. Who knows,

Re: Signatures (was Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?)

2008-02-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:33:14 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/24/08 09:04, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 24 Feb at 14:43 Ron Johnson wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 02/24/08 07:03, Tony van der Hoff wrote: [...] Hey Ron, I hope I' not teaching granny to suck eggs, but the standard

Re: Signatures (was Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?)

2008-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/08 13:07, Florian Kulzer wrote: [snip] It seems to me that it is an inherent problem with inline signing: Google for pgp dash escaping or pgp trailing whitespace or something like that. When I get your messages, I also see the

Re: Signatures (was Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?)

2008-02-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/24/08 13:07, Florian Kulzer wrote: It seems to me that it is an inherent problem with inline signing: Google for pgp dash escaping or pgp trailing whitespace or something like that. [ snippage ] Interesting. I'll research that. Yup, it's the inline signing.

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-23 Thread Chuck Rhode
Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:02:24AM -0500. My reply is below. Perhaps I can get away without the VT520 if I can tell unix to use the printer as the console output and a USB keyboard as the console input. You might be able to find a DecWriter in working condition.

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/23/08 10:09, Chuck Rhode wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:02:24AM -0500. My reply is below. Perhaps I can get away without the VT520 if I can tell unix to use the printer as the console output and a USB

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-23 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Chuck Rhode [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080223 10:42]: Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:02:24AM -0500. My reply is below. Perhaps I can get away without the VT520 if I can tell unix to use the printer as the console output and a USB keyboard as the console input. You

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:10:49PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/23/08 10:09, Chuck Rhode wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:02:24AM -0500. My reply is below. Perhaps I can get away without the VT520 if I can tell unix to use the printer as the console

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/23/08 16:32, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Chuck Rhode [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080223 10:42]: Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:02:24AM -0500. My reply is below. Perhaps I can get away without the VT520 if I can tell unix to

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 22 Feb at 5:08 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chuck Rhode wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:39:30PM -0500. My reply is below. It would appear that there isn't. Employment applications piss me off. Every employer's is unique.

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/22/08 03:06, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 22 Feb at 5:08 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chuck Rhode wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:39:30PM -0500. My reply is below. It would

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 22 Feb at 10:32 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 02/22/08 03:06, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 22 Feb at 5:08 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chuck Rhode wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-22 Thread Russell L. Harris
If you ever watch someone (for example, at the county clerk's office) using an IBM electronic typewriter to fill out a form, you'll see constant manual adjustment of the platen, using the clutch which is built into the platen and is actuated by the knob of the platen. But common dot-matrix and

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:28:10AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: If you ever watch someone (for example, at the county clerk's office) using an IBM electronic typewriter to fill out a form, you'll see constant manual adjustment of the platen, using the clutch which is built into the platen

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:06:49AM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 22 Feb at 5:08 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] And then there are the employers who think the only word processor in the world is MS Office and that every human being with a computer has it.

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-22 Thread H.S.
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:06:49AM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 22 Feb at 5:08 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] And then there are the employers who think the only word processor in the world is MS Office and that every human being with a

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/22/08 14:15, H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:06:49AM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 22 Feb at 5:08 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] And then there are the employers who think the

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-21 Thread Tim Channon
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I often have forms to fill out and some would be better not hand-written. However, they all differ so I can't just set-up a template. What I really need is just a typewriter. Does anyone know of an app that will give me an interactive session with my Epson dot-matrix

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:06:05AM -0600, Depo Catcher wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: What I really need is just a typewriter. I can sale you one for the right price. Sure, I can probably buy one but I have a perfectly good printer (that does decent resolution for ps files too). If it was a

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:52:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/08 16:24, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I often have forms to fill out and some would be better not hand-written. However, they all differ so I can't just set-up a template. Does anyone know of an app that will give me an

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 07:56:21PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 05:50:05AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I often have forms to fill out and some would be better not hand-written. However, they all differ so I can't just set-up a

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:29:29PM +, Ramsay D. Seielstad wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I often have forms to fill out and some would be better not hand-written. However, they all differ so I can't just set-up a template. Does anyone know of an app that will give me an interactive

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-21 Thread Larry Irwin
Could you do something as simple as: cat - /dev/lp0 ? - Original Message - From: Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:27 AM Subject: Re: typewriter function for an impact printer? On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:29:29PM

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:02:41PM -0500, Larry Irwin wrote: Could you do something as simple as: cat - /dev/lp0 ? Well, yes this works for line at a time. It doesn't work for character at a time It doesn't, by itself, lock /dev/lp0 so that lpd waits. --- Anyway, I don't want to bug

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-21 Thread Chuck Rhode
Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:39:30PM -0500. My reply is below. It would appear that there isn't. Employment applications piss me off. Every employer's is unique. Every employer's was designed on a Mac and saved as a *.pdf. Employers care nothing for attaching a blank

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/08 21:54, Chuck Rhode wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:39:30PM -0500. My reply is below. It would appear that there isn't. Employment applications piss me off. Every employer's is unique. Every

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-21 Thread H.S.
Chuck Rhode wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:39:30PM -0500. My reply is below. It would appear that there isn't. Employment applications piss me off. Every employer's is unique. Every employer's was designed on a Mac and saved as a *.pdf. Employers care nothing

typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I often have forms to fill out and some would be better not hand-written. However, they all differ so I can't just set-up a template. What I really need is just a typewriter. Does anyone know of an app that will give me an interactive session with my Epson dot-matrix printer? I

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hello all, I often have forms to fill out and some would be better not hand-written. However, they all differ so I can't just set-up a template. What I really need is just a typewriter. Does anyone know of an app that will give me an interactive session with my Epson

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 05:50:05AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hello all, I often have forms to fill out and some would be better not hand-written. However, they all differ so I can't just set-up a template. What I really need is just a typewriter. Does

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/08 16:24, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hello all, I often have forms to fill out and some would be better not hand-written. However, they all differ so I can't just set-up a template. What I really need is just a typewriter. Does

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-20 Thread Depo Catcher
Ron Johnson wrote: What I really need is just a typewriter. I can sale you one for the right price. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]