Compiling code

[Karl Larsen]

Keith Clark wrote:
> Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 22:52 -0400, Keith Clark wrote:
>>  
>>> All I wanted to do is install a printer and an adapter!
>>>
>>> I have no issues learning all of this, and one day I will, but for now
>>> I just want my printer to work and all of the drivers are in source
>>> code.  What a pita this is!
>>>     
>>
>> I very much doubt that you have to compile anything to get a printer to
>> work. What printer model do you have and what did you try so far to make
>> it work? Where did you get that idea that you'd have to compile a
>> driver? Where did you download the source code for that?
>>
>> In general, it helps to tell the mailing list what you are trying to
>> achieve: describe the goal, not the step:
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#goal
>>
>>
>>   
>
> Mario,
>
> It's a Star TSP600 Thermal Receipt Printer via Cable Unlimited USB 2.0 
> to RS232 Serial Adapter
>
> Keith
>
    Your the only person in the WORLD that has this printer. Get ready 
to write code for Ubuntu or windows. That USB to RS232 can be a real 
problem too. Many of them are VERY poor.

    Ubuntu has software for almost any of the common printers we all 
use. To drive a special Receipt Printer would be beyond the scope.

Karl


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