Date   : Fri, 06 Jan 1989 17:56:40 GMT
From   : tikal!sigma!bill@beaver.cs.washington.edu (William Swan)
Subject: Redirection of printer output

In article <5967@cadnetix.COM> rusty@cadnetix.COM (Rusty) writes:
>>My father works with a Kaypro 10 and a Kaypro II.  He is trying to capture
>>output that would normally be sent to the printer serial port to a disk file.
>
>I seem to recall someone posting or commmenting about a program that would
>do what Craig is asking for, but it MAY have been for IBM-PC style systems
>(sorry).  Was there such a posting HERE, or was I dreaming?  Can anyone
>REALLY help craig?

It was here.

There was a program (called IOCAP) I saw some time ago that captured console
I/O and shunted it to a file. It was out of the CPMUG disks. I just took a
look through a printout of the SIMTEL20 archives, and found:
       kaypro/iocapkp.lbr
which might be the same thing. Unfortunately, my tape of the archives is at
another site and I don't have access to it (Jon, could you e-mail me a copy
of said .LBR file if convenient?), so I can't verify that it is this same
program.

If it is, it shouldn't be difficult to modify to capture printer output
instead - as long as the utility in question uses the LST: (PRN:?) device
and not direct port i/o.

I've thought such a utility would be handy at times.


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William Swan   ..!tikal.Teltone.COM!sigma!bill