Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

phoebus phoebus wrote: 
> Dear members of the Debian community,
> 
> I am currently on the lookout for a terminal emulator on Debian that can handle controlled printing from a remote server often referred to as "passthrough" printing. Our specific requirement is the ability to select the printing device using a specific method, either the physical COM port or the virtual COM port (emulated by a USB device).
> 
> To be more precise, we want the terminal emulator to transmit data exactly as it is received from a remote server (which is a Linux server) when it attempts to print data through a set of escape sequences to send text in transparent mode. This transmission should be directed to the COM device without any modifications.
> 
> Our application runs on Linux and needs to communicate with a specialized serial printer by sending data directly to it through a terminal emulator on a client machine (with the printer connected to the client machine's serial port).


Would it be correct to say that you don't care about the
"terminal emulator" at all, and merely need a way for the Linux
server to send data over the network to a serial port on a
remote Debian machine which is attached to a printer?

If so, I direct you to the sredird package.

-dsr-