[luau] The open-sourcing of PriceBusters

[Ray Strode]

> Ray, have you checked when the TERM variable is vt100? 
Not until you just mentioned it :-).  Doesn't work though.  I didn't see
anything in console.c that checks TERM.  Of course there is termcap, but
that isn't really relevant here I don't think.
> For example the Hawaii State Library System that still uses telnet works 
> well with VT220 emulation, and you can print articles from their
> magazine article index via pass-thru.)
Yea vt100.net has the manuals for many of the DEC systems.  Most past
vt100 have "Media Copy Printer Controller Mode" which is what Scott's
program uses.


> > Interesting.  What are those codes?  When I looked in the vt102 user
> > manual, I didn't see anything to support printer selection (probably
> > because real vt102's and the like only had at most one printer per
> > terminal).
> 
> This will necessitate the use of one or more remote LPD devices, very
> similar to the current setup of samba printers in use to control the
> other "print" devices on the Win98 client side.
Maybe not.  If Scott's right, then we shouldn't be concerned about it at
all.  Both the software and the hardware already will do the 
Right Thing (tm) if the two output devices are setup for passthru.

> This would be straight forward if we stuck with a pure telnet solution,
> however if we try to secure it with SSHD it suddenly becomes more
> complex for these server to client print jobs, unless we don't need
> these to be encrypted.
I'm not following you here, but this does remind me of a question I
have.

Scott, does the current setup use regular telnetd, or some
proprietary-builtin telnet server?  If it's the former we should be able
to just drop-in ssh.  If it's the latter we will probably have to setup
a ssh tunnel.

> These LPD print devices may be somewhat complicated to get working
> properly on the bootable flash disk distribution that MonMotha helps us
> construct, but it would be possible.
Sorry, I'm still not following you. Would you mind re-explaining why? 


--Ray