printing dot matrix from FileMaker

[Roger Howard]

On Thu, February 15, 2007 7:29 am, Erik Saline wrote:
>
> 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.

Exactly... on top of that, there's at least one well known serial port
plugin for FMP, Troi Serial, which could be useful for this too.

Again, ugly, unsupported, but ultimately doable.