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Oct 2nd, 2000, 06:25 PM
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Well at school we have these awful donated dot matrix printers, but at least they work. We only have one problem, if two people print at the same time in mixes their text together. I thought maybe it would be possible to make a program that pretends its a printer, everybody prints to the fake printer which organizes everything before sending it to the real one. Anybody know how to do this?
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Oct 2nd, 2000, 06:33 PM
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I don't think its possible unless you make your own word processor...Dot Matrix printers  ? I thought those were extinct!
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Oct 2nd, 2000, 06:42 PM
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Darn
lol, Are you sure? Couldn't I make the computer think its hardware since its a network printer?
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Oct 2nd, 2000, 06:48 PM
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There probably is a way but not that I know of
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Oct 2nd, 2000, 09:26 PM
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C'mon
Aww, c'mon guys, somebody must know how to do this, you gurus have any idea?
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Oct 2nd, 2000, 11:36 PM
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Oct 3rd, 2000, 06:09 PM
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Oct 3rd, 2000, 07:13 PM
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Oct 3rd, 2000, 10:02 PM
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Oct 4th, 2000, 06:19 PM
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Oct 4th, 2000, 09:25 PM
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Oct 4th, 2000, 09:31 PM
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How are the two dot-matrix printers currently set up? Are they connected to computers, or just one through a switch-box, or what?
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Oct 4th, 2000, 10:26 PM
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This is kinda getting funny  Im still laughing about the DOT MATRIX! !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Oct 4th, 2000, 11:05 PM
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Novel
they are hooked up to a novel netware network, I can get more info once I know if its possible, thanks for responding, finally
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Oct 5th, 2000, 02:56 PM
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Hmmm...I don't know much about how Novell works I'm afraid. You've got my sympathy though - using any kind of printer when it's shared between a big group of people usually sucks.
Are you sure there isn't something that can be set up through the Novell server that can let the print-jobs through one at a time or something?
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Oct 5th, 2000, 06:00 PM
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Nope
already looked at that, problem is what we are doing, programming in pascal, prints line by line
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Oct 6th, 2000, 07:15 PM
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Oct 7th, 2000, 04:26 AM
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 Hey
If you can tell me the version of Novell Netware (the best NOS around) I 'may' be able to help!
Check you later
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Oct 7th, 2000, 04:33 AM
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I managed to pick up an Intel NetportExpress Pro print server for about £35 a couple of weeks ago. It's worked perfectly on my Panasonic dot-matrix.
I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
-- Linus Torvalds
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Oct 7th, 2000, 10:31 AM
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I believe there are some pieces of software called virtual printers which fake the OS to be a printer, but is actually just a program.
Maybe you'll find some info at microsoft.com
Jop - validweb.nl
Alcohol doesn't solve any problems, but then again, neither does milk.
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Oct 7th, 2000, 10:58 AM
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If you have a Windows machine anywhere just connect the printer to it and it will handle all the job spooling for you.
I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
-- Linus Torvalds
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Oct 7th, 2000, 01:50 PM
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Thanks
Ill check it out, i think its novell 3.4
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