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Re: Redirect printing to a file?

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From: greg berryman
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 16:36
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morris@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Ted Morris) writes:
: We are using a terminal emulation package to access a CD-ROM gateway
: which runs MS-DOS-based search engines to retrieve data from the
: CD-ROMs.  Since we're having the Macs act as terminals, users can print
: to their "slave printer" (as DEC VMS calls them) attached to their Macs,
: but can't "download."  For the MS-DOS users, we have a program which can
: be turned on and off to redirect information destined for the printer to
: a file instead.  Is there something like this for the Mac?  It would
: have to be something the user could turn on and off at will, during a
: work session.
: 

I don't know if such a program exists, we use Versaterm for our terminal
emulation package and it will happily stream capture any session or part
of a session.  Other emulation packages will do so too.  Perhaps it would
be possible to change terminal emulators.

Remember, the above free advice is worth what you paid for it.

Greg.

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