On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 03:41:10PM +0100, E Lea wrote: > > > E> I'm playing around with a program that controls a small "design > > E> cutter" - it's basically a plotter that connects via the parallel > > E> port. > > > > E> There is some Windows CAD software that knows about the plotter and > > E> sends commands to it, as far as I can tell in one of two ways: > > > > E> 1) Through a printer driver. It doesn't seem too bothered about the > > E> details of the driver though. I'm assuming that one would normally > > E> use a generic, text-only Windows driver. This method, apparently, > has > > E> the advantage of the driver buffering the output > > > > Wine can't run Ring 0 drivers, like something ending in .sys/ .vxd > > The plotter doesn't need a specific driver - it doesn't even have one. In > Windows it uses any old printer driver just to open the printer port, then > sends commands to the plotter through the printer driver. > > Should it not be possible to do this with Wine? Possibly not with CUPS > though... Well that should work with cups too, you need to configure a printer with model "RAW".
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michael
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