HI plotter (was Re: Help)

[Chris Hill]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, hackmiester / Hunter Fuller wrote:

> On Tuesday 14 March 2006 17:25, Chris Hill wrote:
>> On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, REINALDO JIMENEZ wrote:
>>
>> [ A more descriptive subject line is more likely to get you an answer.
>> Lots of people delete 'Help' without reading. ]
>>
>>> My friend has a Houston Instrument Plotter Model DMP-50 and can not
>>> get it running to print his school work (AutoCAD DWGs)
>>>
>>> Need driver? What he should look for?
>>
>> If your AutoCAD is anything like recent, you're running it under
>> Windows.

> Au contraire, or however you spell it! I am running 2005 under wine.

You spelled it right. Beg pardon, I should have said that AutoCAD 
*thinks* it's running under Windows. I'm sure one could get it working 
under qemu or VMware as well. Point being that when you buy it you get a 
binary whose name ends in ".exe".

One of the big appeals of AutoCAD (for me) used to be that it was 
available *natively* for many different platforms, including MacOS, at 
least one flavor of UNIX, and I think VMS, as well as Win/DOS. Those 
days are long gone.

Any help for the OP, or are we just chatting?

>> Autodesk haven't supported any other platform since Release 13,
>> which was about 10 years ago.
>>
>> I set up something like this years ago, using an HI DMP-61 with FreeBSD
>> 3.2 or 3.3. What I did was to install Samba on the FreeBSD machine, and
>> set it up to 'share' the plotter (connected on an RS232 port) as a
>> printer. Then the Windows clients were able to see the plotter as a
>> networked printer, and use the native AutoCAD driver for that plotter.
>> The FreeBSD machine was pretty much acting as a print server for that
>> plotter.
>>
>> Sorry to be so vague, but it was a long time ago. Hope this gets you
>> pointed in the right direction.
>>
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>> Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org
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