UNIX Fever
10-Mar-91 13:22:30
Sb: #8204-UNIX Fever
Fm: Patrick Maloney 73407,3676
To: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
Don, that's not quite what I meant. VTs have a "transparent print" mode
where when they receive a certain escape sequence (<CSI>4? or something )
they send all following output to the attached printer until the ending
escape sequence at which point normal interative processing continues.
Under XENIX I have special devices, which as far as the OS is concerned,
are regular TTY devices. These devices, when they receive data, say for a
print job, send the start sequence,the data, and the end sequence to a
normal TTY line…Hope this was not too confusing an explanation hehe.