What Are You Doing Right Now

[scottalanmiller]

The kids are making some worms in dirt Jello pudding thing.

[scottalanmiller]

[Obsolesce]

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

At work, wishing I had that cup of worms while I wait for my coffee.

[scottalanmiller]

You are welcome to it. I tried a bite and it is totally bland.

[Obsolesce]

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

You are welcome to it. I tried a bite and it is totally bland.

Oh really?

[scottalanmiller]

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

You are welcome to it. I tried a bite and it is totally bland.

Oh really?

Yeah, no one really wanted to eat it.

[scottalanmiller]

Just about to get the kids off to bed.

[WrCombs]

just got first cup of Coffee, Following up with a few sites.

Hey - How do you send commands to printers on com ports - to test printing?

[travisdh1]

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just got first cup of Coffee, Following up with a few sites.

Hey - How do you send commands to printers on com ports - to test printing?

You get a new printer...

Even I don't know if that's more of a joke, serious recommendation, or both.

I don't think there is any special command. No printout = serial port settings are probably wrong. Does the printer react at all when you try to send it a print job?

[WrCombs]

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just got first cup of Coffee, Following up with a few sites.

Hey - How do you send commands to printers on com ports - to test printing?

You get a new printer...

Even I don't know if that's more of a joke, serious recommendation, or both.

I don't think there is any special command. No printout = serial port settings are probably wrong. Does the printer react at all when you try to send it a print job?

Both - Working with hardware vendor on a printing issue still because it's printing different characters now.
His exact words in the email are- https://i.imgur.com/BrUaCRs.png

And I dont know how to do that

[scotth]

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just got first cup of Coffee, Following up with a few sites.

Hey - How do you send commands to printers on com ports - to test printing?

If you direct connect to com1, copy test.txt>prn I think.
I haven't done that in so many years, the last time I did it, I fell off my dinosaur

[travisdh1]

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just got first cup of Coffee, Following up with a few sites.

Hey - How do you send commands to printers on com ports - to test printing?

You get a new printer...

Even I don't know if that's more of a joke, serious recommendation, or both.

I don't think there is any special command. No printout = serial port settings are probably wrong. Does the printer react at all when you try to send it a print job?

Both - Working with hardware vendor on a printing issue still because it's printing different characters now.
His exact words in the email are- https://i.imgur.com/BrUaCRs.png

And I dont know how to do that

Well, neither do I. It's not exactly common knowledge, so ask the person? I'd hope they have documentation online on what to do, because I don't think you can just pipe text into a printer.

[WrCombs]

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just got first cup of Coffee, Following up with a few sites.

Hey - How do you send commands to printers on com ports - to test printing?

You get a new printer...

Even I don't know if that's more of a joke, serious recommendation, or both.

I don't think there is any special command. No printout = serial port settings are probably wrong. Does the printer react at all when you try to send it a print job?

Both - Working with hardware vendor on a printing issue still because it's printing different characters now.
His exact words in the email are- https://i.imgur.com/BrUaCRs.png

And I dont know how to do that

Well, neither do I. It's not exactly common knowledge, so ask the person? I'd hope they have documentation online on what to do, because I don't think you can just pipe text into a printer.

Ah well, Fair enough .
The way he made it seem was it was common knowledge.

[hobbit666]

Just installed XCP-NG on my T7500.

[WrCombs]

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just got first cup of Coffee, Following up with a few sites.

Hey - How do you send commands to printers on com ports - to test printing?

If you direct connect to com1, copy test.txt>prn I think.
I haven't done that in so many years, the last time I did it, I fell off my dinosaur

Our printers are direct connected to com 2 and com 3.
when I tested with

echo Hello >Com2

I didn't get anything same for com 3 .

[scotth]

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just got first cup of Coffee, Following up with a few sites.

Hey - How do you send commands to printers on com ports - to test printing?

If you direct connect to com1, copy test.txt>prn I think.
I haven't done that in so many years, the last time I did it, I fell off my dinosaur

Our printers are direct connected to com 2 and com 3.
when I tested with

echo Hello >Com2

I didn't get anything same for com 3 .

Hmmm. Make a something.txt with a message. Check your devices and see what the printer is named and what port it is connected to. If I remember correctly, the command is copy something.txt>prn or whatever your printer is named. You could do to the com port as well. If it was connected to your 1st parallel port it would be copy something.txt>lpt1. Why the name vs port, I can remember but I do know that it worked when we had impact printers.

[WrCombs]

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just got first cup of Coffee, Following up with a few sites.

Hey - How do you send commands to printers on com ports - to test printing?

If you direct connect to com1, copy test.txt>prn I think.
I haven't done that in so many years, the last time I did it, I fell off my dinosaur

Our printers are direct connected to com 2 and com 3.
when I tested with

echo Hello >Com2

I didn't get anything same for com 3 .

Hmmm. Make a something.txt with a message. Check your devices and see what the printer is named and what port it is connected to. If I remember correctly, the command is copy something.txt>prn or whatever your printer is named. You could do to the com port as well. If it was connected to your 1st parallel port it would be copy something.txt>lpt1. Why the name vs port, I can remember but I do know that it worked when we had impact printers.

returned

Access is denied

[WrCombs]

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just got first cup of Coffee, Following up with a few sites.

Hey - How do you send commands to printers on com ports - to test printing?

If you direct connect to com1, copy test.txt>prn I think.
I haven't done that in so many years, the last time I did it, I fell off my dinosaur

Our printers are direct connected to com 2 and com 3.
when I tested with

echo Hello >Com2

I didn't get anything same for com 3 .

Hmmm. Make a something.txt with a message. Check your devices and see what the printer is named and what port it is connected to. If I remember correctly, the command is copy something.txt>prn or whatever your printer is named. You could do to the com port as well. If it was connected to your 1st parallel port it would be copy something.txt>lpt1. Why the name vs port, I can remember but I do know that it worked when we had impact printers.

returned

Access is denied

I ran

Copy test.txt>com1

The printer is not named in Windows. It is only in Aloha.
:man_facepalming: I dont make the rules, i just have to make stuff work .

[valentina]

I feel like I haven't slept in 5 days. Daylight savings is killing me

[WrCombs]

sarcasm/Its a joke

I even tried running

Sudo Copy Test.txt>comx