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shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter) writes:
>kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) suggested using
>Transcript to solve a communications problem.  I think you're
>missing the point, Bob.  Transcript won't work until one has a
>solid serial communication channel.  The best way to get this
>working is to use a terminal emulator like tip or kermit to
>talk to the printer.  Only after this works does one have any
>chance of making Transcript work.

wait, maybe I missed something, like this printer wasn't actually connected
to the Sparc.  If you have the TRANSCRIPT software, you can compile it to
create the proper files so that one of the two serial ports in the back of
the sparc will be able to talk to the printer without any fuss about using
tip or kermit or any other communications product.  I'm also assuming that
the people who use the printer are actually logged into the machine in
question, which of course, requires the users to be at terminals (dumb or
smart) and be connected to it using whatever means necessary (where terminal
programs make sense).

Those MS-DOS diskettes are only useful if you are at an MS-DOS machine
connected directly to the printer (either its serial port or over a PC
network like Novell Netware or Bayan Vines).  It's almost useless if the
printer is connected to the sparc and you're printing from the sparc
(although it makes tons of sense if your at a PC with the sparc as a 
print server, but the software is only good on a PC).

Bob
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