[Simh] Printer Output

[Kevin Brunt]

With Unix, at least, you can go one stage further and investigate the 
use of a named pipe.

The ultimate, of course, is to go the whole hog and convert the output 
to postscript and add the green stripes and the sprocket holes.....

Kevin

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:41:43 -0700 (PDT) "Zane H. Healy" 
<healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:

> > Has anyone found a way to automate printer output on a simh simulator?  
> > I am running simh PDP-11 with RSTS/E and I would like to be able to 
> > print from within RSTS and just have it come out on the printer.
> 
> 
> Perl is your friend.  Simply write a perl script that sits around watching
> the file your virtual printer writes to, and then sends the output to a
> real printer.
> 
> I'd done this at one point, but have lost the script.
> 
>                 Zane