printing dot matrix from FileMaker

[Dan Shoop]

At 7:29 AM -0800 2/15/07, 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.

What's stdout to a application that may have no running user context?
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-dhan

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