printing dot matrix from FileMaker

[Roger Howard]

On Thu, February 15, 2007 9:10 am, Dan Shoop wrote:
> 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?

Well you first brought it up; Google can give you all the details you need
on "do shell script" and how it executes. This isn't an FMP thing, it's an
AppleScript thing, and does have some gotchas.

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html

Anyway, if I were interfacing with a serial device from FMP, it wouldn't
touch "do shell script" or stdout.

I think we've beat this one to a pulp.

-R