Compiling code

[Derek Broughton]

Karl Larsen wrote:

> 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
>>
>     Your the only person in the WORLD that has this printer. Get ready
> to write code for Ubuntu or windows.

Geez Karl, if you could find something you _did_ know something about, you 
could maybe stick to commenting on it.  If you won't do that, you could at
LEAST google first to see if you're right.

It seems highly unlikely that nobody else uses a TSP600 Thermal receipt
printer, as they wouldn't be selling them without a demand.  It seems
almost as unlikely that nobody uses them on Linux.  And, surprise,
surprise, a quick google for "linux printer tsp600" gives you as link #1:
http://www.opendrivers.com/driver/247096/star-micronics-tsp600-javapos-driver-windows-linux-mac-os-x-free-download.html

Duh.

> That USB to RS232 can be a real 
> problem too. Many of them are VERY poor.

Well, _that_'s true.

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

What scope?  It's actually fairly likely.  Receipt printers don't have many
awkward problems - they usually print short lines, no images and one font. 
And there's quite a lot of POS software (that would be Point of Sale, not
POS as describes your usual response) using Linux.
-- 
derek