[KLUG Members] Terminal Attached Printer On SuSe

[Bruce Smith]

> > > I have to put a printer on a Wyse 60 terminal attached to a SuSe 9.1
> > > box.  But SuSe doesn't offer any mechanism for defining a
> > > terminal-attached-printer (Wierd, I'm getting warm nostalgic feelings
> > > for AIX....).  Neither does it seem to include or offer lprint or
> > > vtprint packages.  Anyone set such a thing up on SuSe (or just recent
> > > Linux)?
> > I've used terminal attached printers on X-terminals (network connected),
> > but you are talking about a serial port connected terminal, right?
> 
> Yes, a real honest-to-goodness physical Wyse 60. RS-232 BAEBEE!!

I vaguely remember writing a print driver for a serial terminal a LONG
time ago (mainframe, not *nix) and it wasn't very hard.  It seems like
there is just a escape/control code you send in front of the data you
want to print to redirect the output from the screen to the printer
port, and another control/escape code to turn off printing at the end.

It wasn't a Wyse terminal either (ANSI compatible), but I doubt it's
much different on a Wyse.

I'm scared to ask you just don't plop a Jetdirect down next to the Wyse,
but I 'm sure you have a good reason.  :-)

 - BS