Epson FX-980 & linux:

[Fairlight]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:55:04AM -0400, John Broome, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a linux guy, not a filepro guy.  We have a client that is currently
> running FP on a SCO box, we were hired to upgrade to ver 5 of filepro
> and move it over to a linux box.
> 
> That part was easy and has been completed.  Now what we're doing is
> moving the client off of serial green screens and serial printers to
> linux PCs and parallel printers, which will connect to the linux FP
> server over SSH.
> 
> Client is using Epson FX-980 printers which will do both serial and
> parallel.  I have used the great google oracle and have not seen a
> solution to this.

Please don't take this as being blown off, or anything negative, but:

"A solution to -what-?"

You didn't say what the actual problem is.  You didn't actually indicate
that there -is- a problem except by inference.  You simply detailed your
task.  What specifically is going awry that is an actual addressable point?

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