Parallel-port print-to-text?

[nmeyers-BigylZdZcsdmcu3hnIyYJQ at public.gmane.org]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 05:52:52PM -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> I guess I just didn't feed Google the right search string;
> that link didn't turn up when I looked. Thanks.

Yeah... I once (in the days before Google) got a note in a performance
review about my skill with search engines :-). The terms I used here were
"parallel port capture". There may be some other good hits out there.

Nathan

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> 
> Nathan Meyers wrote:
> > John Abreau wrote:
> >   
> >> I have an old Norstar phone system that prints plain text to a
> >> parallel printer,
> >> and the only way I know of to view the system's current state is to print it to
> >> the parallel port. It would be nice to be able to get the config
> >> details in a text file
> >> instead. Or a pdf file if plain text is not possible.
> >>
> >> Has anyone ever heard of a device that hools up to a parallel port, acts like a
> >> printer, and writes the output to a file instead of paper?
> >>
> >>   
> >>     
> > http://pcl.to/capture/
> >
> > Parallel port goes in, USB comes out, and some Windows-based software 
> > handles the capture. I don't anything else about it - just found it when 
> > Googling for an answer to your question. I never cease to be amazed at 
> > all the gadgets out there to solve annoying little issues like this.
> >
> > Nathan
> >
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