Re: keys available in text-entry fields of Web forms

[jdashiel]

None of this will work.
Reason is, vt100 doesn't support print from screen.
The home computer needs to be running in vt102 not vt100.  That's the
only difference
between the two standards actually.
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996
address@hidden
wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Dec 1996 address@hidden wrote:
> 
> : This gets me thinking, would it be possible to make lynx print on my own
> : Linux box at home, using my dialin account?  There must be a way to pipe
> : the 'Use your own command' into a file into my own machine... much in the
> : way you could do in Pine....
> 
> As I understand it, on your machine at home you must (1) be running a
> full-feature VT-100 terminal emulator and (2) have the printer all ready
> to go, and at the other end of the modem connection (presumably your
> ISP's Unix box, where I assume Lynx is running) you must (1) have lpansi
> installed and (2) have the line that Subir mentioned (`PRINTER:Use vt100
> print sequence', etc.) enabled in lynx.cfg (you might need to put in the
> full path to lpansi, too). Then, when you activate the correct link in
> the p(rint) screen, Lynx will pass the current document to lpansi, and
> lpansi will pass it over the modem connection to the terminal emulator at
> your end, which will send the text to the default printer there.
> 
> Just make sure it isn't a PostScript printer! They won't print anything
> that isn't in PostScript format.
> 
> Dan Strychalski
> address@hidden
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