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- Please note, if you have an existing door*.cfg file, delete and start
- over.
-
- The PRN-DRWY.BAM action module for BOYAN 5.2 is identical to DOORWAY.BAM,
- except that it interprets print codes sent by DOORWAY to enable remote
- printing. It follows the scheme described in the DWCOMM documentation:
-
- 1. DOORWAY must be invoked with the /Y:R parameter on its command line
- (refer to DOORWAY documentation).
-
- 2. When DOORWAY requests the cursor position, the PRN-DRWY module will
- respond with the bogus position (0,0). This signals to DOORWAY that
- print codes will be intercepted properly. It does mean that cursor-
- positioning requests are broken, however. Surely a better system
- could have been devised?
-
- 3. The sequence ^[[#;nnnP triggers printing of the following nnn < 256
- characters. Clearly this protocol is very susceptible to line hits;
- it is recommended for use only with error-correcting modems.
-
- 4. BOYAN ignores the # argument which specifies the printer port used
- on the remote host. Use the BOYAN \PP[x] macro to select the local
- printer port. If you need to frequently switch between printers,
- it would be easy to bind the macros \PP[1] , \PP[2] , and \PP[3] to
- (say) the Alt-1, Alt-2, and Alt-3 keys.
-
- 5. Pressing <ESC> (or right mouse button) will abort printing--for
- example, if BOYAN is caught waiting for the 255'th character, and
- the host had only sent 254.
-
- 6. It's easy to install PRN-DRWY.BAM into BOYAN 5.0. First copy the
- BAM file into your BOYAN directory. Then run BOYAN, go to Config
- Area <A> and select option [A]--Add action module. Type "P" for the
- menu letter, then "PRN-DRWY" <Enter>. Caution: PRN-DRWY should not
- be chosen as the default BAM for BOYAN; however you *can* add the
- command \AM[P] to your init macro, which has the same effect.
-
- That's all there is to it!
-
- Justin Boyan
- 16 Nov 1991