Hi,
(Kind of sidetracked from FreeDOS roadmap but seems to belon here...)
I'm just getting started programming for DOS but have worked a bit with
different printing languages and would love to get started on a project
that converts ESC/P to something more modern like PCL or PS on the fly. I
will definitely need help on the TSR side as I know what they do, but not
how they work.
For new projects, what compilers should be targeted? OpenWatcom seems like
the obvious choice, but I don't know what other folks are using.
--Andy
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Tom Ehlert <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I suggested the shelling technique for somebody who wants to experiment
> > with hooking the BIOS interrupts but is not ready to tackle the TSR
> > portion.
> right; also much easier to debug (as you already pointed out)
>
> > "Too big" depends on the program being used; there are many
> > programs that will still load and run even with another 64K missing from
> > RAM. Let's leave that question to the person who decides to tackle the
> > project, eh?
> right. if this program ever materializes, and is written in C, I offer my
> help to make it a TSR with the least possible footprint.
>
> > My Brother laser printer (HL 5370DW) which emulates Epson FX codes, PCL
> > and PostScript just printed a PostScript copy of my 2002 family
> > christmas letter from DOSBox using the following command:
>
> > nc -target 192.168.2.20 9100 -bin < \xmas.ps
>
> > Lots of fonts and formatting, an embedded image or two, etc. in a 3MB
> > file. You are limited to what the printer understands, but I think I've
> > demonstrated that you can safely send ASCII, PCL, PostScript, or
> > whatever your printer supports.
> you are probably right. even in the dark ages before Windows 1995,
> many (at least some) programs existed that could talk PostScript and
> PCL.
>
> Tom
>
>
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