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#: 19272 S13/GEOS Connection I
05-May-89 14:45:12
Sb: #GEOS wish list
Fm: Anthony Marsh 72127,2301
To: Ed Flinn/Sysop 76703,4032 (X)
Joe Buckley sends his compliments on a job well done. However, he is a little
jealous and wonders why he didn't think of it first. As for myself, I think you
2 guys are so prolific that you could whip up some programs in a few days. How
about taking requests or entertaining a wish list? There is always something
that I wish GEOS could do and assume that if I can think it up, then it can be
done. Tony
#: 19274 S13/GEOS Connection I
05-May-89 15:27:48
Sb: #19272-#GEOS wish list
Fm: Ed Flinn/Sysop 76703,4032
To: Anthony Marsh 72127,2301
Tony,
<blush>
This was a big program for me. I'd never written anything for GEOS that
wrote to disk before. Turned out to be much, much easier than I'd found it to
be in native C= mode, though still not as easy as on the mainframe IBM at work
<grin>.
I think a wishlist would be a great idea. I sure can't promise to deliver
on any of the wishes, but I think it'd be of value to any GEOS programmer to
have some idea of what the "audience" would like to see.
#: 19275 S13/GEOS Connection I
05-May-89 17:12:56
Sb: #19274-#GEOS wish list
Fm: Bill Roberson 73320,1550
To: Ed Flinn/Sysop 76703,4032 (X)
Ed,
Pocket Writer has a method of customizing printer drivers with instructions on
creating printer drivers for your specific printer.
I have recently purchased a Diablo P12CQI printer. I have set it for EPSON
emulation and have tried every printer driver on my GEOS disk (and some I had
down loaded). None of the outputs were what I want.
My printer is capable of 480, 576, 640, 960, and 1920 dots per 8 inches. Since
GEOS prefers a 640 dots per 8 inches, I would like to be able to print that.
My purpose of this long message is to explain wy GEOS program wish. I would
like to see a GEOS application that would ask for specific information and then
produce a print driver. I am not sure what information would be needed, but I
would think things like ESC < is what causes my print head to return to home
position, Hex code 0A is a line feed, and Hex 0C is a form feed.
I would be willing to keep trying different things with such a program until I
got a good printout.
8) Bill 8)
#: 19280 S13/GEOS Connection I
05-May-89 22:34:11
Sb: #19275-#GEOS wish list
Fm: Marte Brengle 76703,4242
To: Bill Roberson 73320,1550 (X)
Bill, if you'll check, you'll find that I uploaded something like that: George
Wells' Print Driver Patcher. I believe the filename I gave it was PRNPCH.BIN,
but not positive about that.
It's not as easy to work with as the Pocket Writer instructions, but it works.
If you have a QLink subscription, George is usually most willing to help you
work out a custom printer driver. His screen name there is GHWells.
--M--
#: 19296 S13/GEOS Connection I
06-May-89 16:44:37
Sb: #19280-#GEOS wish list
Fm: Bill Roberson 73320,1550
To: Marte Brengle 76703,4242 (X)
Marte,
I had already D/Led the patch program. It will only work if you get the
specific changes from geoRep GHW (G. Wells).
I have asked GHW for his assistance on the GEOS 128 printer board. After
several different things, he suggested I send him copies of my interface and
printer manuals. I think I will end up with a print driver written
specifically for the Diablo P12CQI printer.
The geoRep program seems to be working better for BSW than just using the
various GEOS STEVES. All of the reps seem to know what they are talking about
(maybe one is lost but he admits his mistakes).
8) Bill 8)
#: 19297 S13/GEOS Connection I
06-May-89 17:08:39
Sb: #19296-GEOS wish list
Fm: Ed Flinn/Sysop 76703,4032
To: Bill Roberson 73320,1550
Bill,
Much as I hate to admit it, I think you're right about the geoReps. <grin>
They've found an elegant solution to BSW's inability to provide proper
customer support at a price acceptable to BSW: get a group of users, and make
them the support team. It works. People doing Sysop-type work as a hobby
often seem to work harder, and do a better job, than 9-to-5'ers would.
#: 19298 S13/GEOS Connection I
06-May-89 20:03:55
Sb: #19296-GEOS wish list
Fm: Marte Brengle 76703,4242
To: Bill Roberson 73320,1550
George Wells is a super nice guy and a geoExpert, too. He lives not far from
here and I've spoken to him on the phone several times. I think BSW really
picked a good crew of geoReps (with one notable geoClunker, but that's just my
personal opinion).
The GEOS Steve crew was hopelessly overworked, under-experienced and
under-informed. The new geoRep program is one of the smartest things BSW has
done in a loooooong time.
--M--
#: 19308 S13/GEOS Connection I
07-May-89 21:04:42
Sb: #19272-#GEOS wish list
Fm: Alan R. Dickey 72220,115
To: Anthony Marsh 72127,2301
My geoWishes:
1) Support for 24 pin printers in 24 pin mode.
2) Support for DeskJet printers at 300 DPI.
3) Support for non-postscript laser printers at 300 DPI.
4) Someway to get color with 80 column 128 via extended video memory. (64K
in 128Ds and 128s with upgrade.)
RE # 2: HP just released a new version of the DeskJet (DeskJet Plus) and the
prices on the original ,model are dropping bigtime.
#: 19314 S13/GEOS Connection I
08-May-89 18:19:37
Sb: #19308-GEOS wish list
Fm: Ed Flinn/Sysop 76703,4032
To: Alan R. Dickey 72220,115
Good list. BTW, this month's print edition of OLT has a review of the HP
DeskJet. Reading between the lines, it looks like this might just be the
printer technology that obsoletes Laser, even if the DeskJet isn't the printer
that does it.
#: 19333 S13/GEOS Connection I
10-May-89 00:34:40
Sb: #19314-GEOS wish list
Fm: gary roth 73717,2347
To: Ed Flinn/Sysop 76703,4032 (X)
One thing I would like to see would be the ability to use the cursor keys on
the desktop.
#: 19333 S13/GEOS Connection I
10-May-89 00:34:40
Sb: #19314-GEOS wish list
Fm: gary roth 73717,2347
To: Ed Flinn/Sysop 76703,4032 (X)
One thing I would like to see would be the ability to use the cursor keys on
the desktop.
#: 19351 S13/GEOS Connection I
11-May-89 14:20:59
Sb: #19274-GEOS wish list
Fm: Anthony Marsh 72127,2301
To: Ed Flinn/Sysop 76703,4032 (X)
OK, here are some more ideas for our wish list. GEOnavigator like the MAC
version to automate CIS activity. GEOadveture with graphics and you can click
on points of a compass to move around. GEOwill maker?
A GEOS double-click application that is based on Joe Buckley's GEOWRITE help
screens,
but would also have graphics. I want one to give directions to our user group
meetings. Menu driven, you could go backwards or forwards, or to the graphics,
and of course print out any or all pages, either on after the other without a
formfeed or side-by-side. I think Joe could whip this up in less than an hour.
He is coming out with a new disk soon and looking for 'fillers'.
GEOtax, GEObbs, GEOhome runs those BSR modules with ICONS, GEOtravel, GEOcad,
GEOart, GEObarcode, GEOatlas, and someday GEOhyperstack? Well, maybe like a
hyperstack. Take your pick. Tony
#: 19360 S13/GEOS Connection I
11-May-89 23:13:31
Sb: #19314-#GEOS wish list
Fm: Alan R. Dickey 72220,115
To: Ed Flinn/Sysop 76703,4032 (X)
With the current prices on the original DeskJet, it makes it harder and harder
not to replace the ol'Panasonic.
I've seen packages to make the LaserJet postscript compatible, how GEOS
friendly would this be, AND do such critters exist for the DeskJet?
Does it seem odd to want to hook up that much printer to a Commie?
Alan
#: 19363 S13/GEOS Connection I
12-May-89 15:23:41
Sb: #19360-#GEOS wish list
Fm: Ed Flinn/Sysop 76703,4032
To: Alan R. Dickey 72220,115 (X)
Alan,
I have only a vague memory of it, but I think the only PS engine I've seen
advertised for the LaserJet was a card that fit into an XT-class MS-DOS
machine. I may be misremembering.
As far as I know, there is no engine for the DeskJet, but if new technology
thermal transfer achieves its' promise, then a PS printer of this type will
exist, sooner or later. What I've read suggests that the DeskJet is capable of
better output than the Laser, and at a lower price.
GEOS has always been designed to put images on paper. While there *is*
something a little unsettling about a printer that costs more than the rest of
the system put together, the bottom line has to be results. If it's going to
take that printer to achieve the results, and if that system is capable of
achieving them, what's the point of emptying a bank account to buy a '386
machine and PageMaker? <grin>
#: 19376 S13/GEOS Connection I
15-May-89 21:36:18
Sb: #19363-GEOS wish list
Fm: Alan R. Dickey 72220,115
To: Ed Flinn/Sysop 76703,4032
I agree wholeheartedly. (is that one word or what?)
The new price of the DeskJet is making my fingers VERY itchy to go out and
purchase such a beast. Then I remeber that Wordstar 4.0 is the only program
that I have that supports it. Then I think, "what if" GEOS supported 24 pins
of the DeskJet. I get all itchy to spend agian.
#: 19409 S13/GEOS Connection I
18-May-89 19:20:24
Sb: #19274-GEOS wish list
Fm: Ed Flinn/Sysop 76703,4032
To: [F] All
Well, I guess it's about time I add my own items to the wishlist. I think
most of these are do-able, and I might even wind up working on one or two of
the easy ones.
FontMangler - Combine different point sizes from various fonts into a single
font file, to help overcome the limitation on number of fonts per document.
Font <-> Photo Album - For building or using some of the special graphics
fonts, a utility to convert fonts to/from Photo Albums
Scrap Resizer - With geoPublish and the geoPaints in GEOS 2.0, various
manipulations can be performed when importing a photo scrap, including
enlarging. A standalone utility to enlarge and reduce scraps would be useful.
LaserDisk - geoPublish documents can be converted to PostScript format by
auxiliary Applications on the geoPub disk, but cannot be saved to disk, only
transmitted to a PS-equipped printer via RS-232. A utility that could write
the PostScript programs to disk, as normal ASCII files would be very useful.
Not a new idea, but one that hasn't been done yet.
geoSort - a small program for sorting geoWrite lists
and, of course, lots and lots of printer drivers!
#: 19431 S13/GEOS Connection I
20-May-89 12:42:12
Sb: #19274-#GEOS wish list
Fm: Bob Clemens (Roch. NY) 76337,3532
To: Ed Flinn/Sysop 76703,4032 (X)
Ed,
How about a geoThesaurus?
How about BSW coming on line here on CIS?
Bob Clemens
#: 19433 S13/GEOS Connection I
20-May-89 12:48:26
Sb: #19431-#GEOS wish list
Fm: Ed Flinn/Sysop 76703,4032
To: Bob Clemens (Roch. NY) 76337,3532 (X)
Bob,
I like that geoThesaurus idea. Lessee, make it a DA, run from within
geoWrite, that picks up whatever you've got highlighted, gives you the list of
synonyms, and lets you automatically select one (or not) to replace the
highlighted word. I like it!!
I think BSW has contractual obligations with Q that prevent them from doing
Customer Service elsewhere, though clearly some of their geoReps have put in
appearances in various places.