Re: A83: Re: Productive Progs: Printing

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Re: A83: Re: Productive Progs: Printing


When I was in high school, I usually waited until the last minute to write
my essay for second period english.  Consequently, I'd have to find some way
to write it during first period (since that's truly waiting until the last
minute).  What I'd do is borrow my friend's laptop (he always brought it to
class) and type it up during class.  Then, I'd run to the library during
passing period with a disk and print out my essay.  There's no way in the
world I could have written the essay AND printed during passing period.  I
had to write the paper during first period.  Most of us don't have a laptop
or even have friends w/ laptops (or friends that would actually bring their
laptops to school).  So, in this particular case, you *wouldn't* want to use
the PC software equivalent (ex: windows wordpad) since you'd only have
access to that during passing period, which isn't enough time to write a
whole paper.

Building a printer would be fun, yes, but I was trying to explain a use for
typing up the paper on the calc and then printing on a nearby computer.

-Justin Karneges [Infiniti]

>Dont you understand, why you make programs is just for the fun of doing it
>I mean if you're making a graph on the calc to print it on the computer
>why not use excel instead?
>But if you build a printer that would be so cool and fun to develop.
>
>/Stefan
>
>On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Justin Karneges wrote:
>
>>
>> Not a bad idea.  We could actually save ourselves a step by using the
>> already existing TI Winlink software (so that we don't have to write our
own
>> communications program).  A word processor for the calc needs to be made
>> that will save the file in a string or something and then a program on
the
>> PC to turn the string (.83S file) into a text file.  If we wanted to be
even
>> cooler, the word processor would support fonts and bold/italic/underline.
>> Though it may be difficult to represent on the calc, as long as we know
what
>> is going to be what in the end then it doesn't matter how it looks on the
>> calc.  Anyways, the TI-83 word processor could put in font/style codes
>> embedded in the .83S and then the PC program could turn the .83S file
into a
>> .DOC instead of a .TXT.
>>
>> This way, we can use the standard graphlink and print fully styled and
>> fonted documents on a nearby computer.  Type your essay on the calc in
first
>> period, and print during passing period at the library.  Just in time for
>> second period english!
>>
>> -Justin Karneges [Infiniti]
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: VorTexx15@aol.com <VorTexx15@aol.com>
>> To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
>> Date: Sunday, November 22, 1998 4:18 PM
>> Subject: Re: A83: Re: Productive Progs: Printing
>>
>>
>> >
>> >Why not make your program send data to a program on your computer much
like
>> >the ROM dump programs do.  At that time you could have the choice of
>> printing
>> >it out (on a real printer on real paper) or saving your data.  I am not
>> sure
>> >if this has been mentioned yet.  Sorry if I am repeating something
already
>> >mentioned.
>> >
>>
>>
>
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