printing dot matrix from FileMaker

Dan Shoop shoop at iwiring.net
Wed Feb 14 22:34:39 PST 2007


At 2:16 PM -0800 2/14/07, Roger Howard wrote:
>On Wed, February 14, 2007 2:10 pm, Dan Shoop wrote:
>>  Then you should also agree that what the vendor said was probably on
>>  target given that the discussion there was regarding "printers" on
>>  the Mac, and those are not TTYs to the OS. So the statement was
>>  correct.
>
>Sure, if you want to parse it out, I'll go with that.
>
>On a practical level, it's completely possible to integrate such a device
>with FMP, as I'm sure you'll also agree. Whether it's worth doing, or
>wise, or sane, is beyond my position to say.

I'm not sure how possible it is or not, having ditched FMP some years 
ago now that there's a real database, postgres, on every Mac.

So does FMP have a way to pipe output to stdout?

-- 

-dhan

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