printing dot matrix from FileMaker

[Erik Saline]

On Feb 14, 2007, at 10:34 PM, Dan Shoop wrote:

> 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?

FMP can run Applescript which in turn can pipe to stdout.  I have not  
done it but seems doable.



Erik


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