Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing
On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 07:14 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 12:28:58PM +0100, hw wrote:
> > Ok, and what's the problem? That the server wants to print to the
> > printer? That the application sends data to the "screen" (a terminal
> > emulator) instead of sending it to the printer? That it is necessary
> > to see the printer data displayed in a terminal emulator?
>
> See, now we're going in circles again. I already *asked* the OP to
> explain the full picture, and they still only gave a partial answer.
>
> It has been hinted to us that there are more layers in the problem
> than simply Server <--> PC --> Printer. We've been told that there
> is another layer of devices connected to the Printer, although this
> was never confirmed in the "big picture" answer.
>
> Apparently the (retail sales??) application on the server needs to
> talk to all three layers of hardware: the PC (to display information
> on the screen), the Printer (to generate ink on paper), and the other
> devices beyond the Printer (reasons never given). Communication with
> the devices beyond the Printer is apparently "bidirectional", meaning
> the server application needs to be able to query one of these devices
> and get information from it, which will cause application state to
> be altered, information to appear on the screen, etc. Or maybe the
> devices beyond the Printer are capable of initiating an async data
> transfer to the server app? Who knows. It was never clearly stated.
>
> Apparently the OP has a proprietary Windows terminal emulator + telnet
> client program (name never revealed?) that can already do everything,
> and they want a Debian program that can be used in place of it.
>
> The problem for *us* is that we don't know what "everything" is (since
> the OP is incapable of explaining it all), which makes it very hard
> to find a program that can do "everything".
Hm ok, it's all too much guesswork then.
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