THANKS to all that have responded! As I suspected, a dumb terminal is not
likely to have a "print to disk" escape sequence. Further down the line
I'll look at adding that to an open source terminal emulator. Something I
just tried that will let us get by is (under Win98), I created a file
printer. I just printed to the file. I have not tried the escape sequences
for print on/off in a terminal emulator yet, but I suspect it will work.
We can just have our users choose this as the printer they want to use,
then print the tab delimited ascii to it.

THANKS

Harold



> You may be able to get by with a utility that redirects printer output
> to a file, then simply use the same commands to print as you have in the
> past.
>
> Other than that, I suspect you're looking for quite a unique program.
> You might try modifying one of the open source terminal emulators to add
> this feature.
>
> -Adam
>
> Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>
>>I'm working on a PIC application that will drive an ANSI terminal
>> emulator
>>through EIA232. I'm aware of printer on/off escape sequences from the
>>VT100 control codes. Is there, by any chance, a standard escape sequence
>>to redirect incoming data to a log file, then another sequence to
>> redirect
>>back to the screen, just as the printer commands do? Many years ago,
>> using
>>XTALK IV, we used the LED1 on/off commands to do this. Not quite
>> standard,
>>though. So, any such escape sequences exist, and are they supported by
>>common terminal emulation software?
>>
>>THANKS!
>>
>>Harold
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