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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: wurzel on October 05, 2011, 07:47:04 AM

Title: TurboPrint Update
Post by: wurzel on October 05, 2011, 07:47:04 AM

Hi guys,

There is an unofficial update to TurboPrint just released on Aminet. There is no description of what it does, just a large Disclaimer.
Has anyone tried it yet, or is it best to steer clear?
Cheers

Title: Re: TurboPrint Update
Post by: thommys on October 05, 2011, 09:01:25 AM

It's Turboprint for Linux
Don't know why it's in Aminet

Title: Re: TurboPrint Update
Post by: Minuous on October 05, 2011, 10:26:06 AM

It's an Amiga Installer script, and basically it does the following:

(run "wget" (cat "ftp://ftp.zedonet.com/tp2/turboprint-" #tp ".i586.tgz"))
(complete 25)

(working "unarchive")
(run "xaduntar" (cat "turboprint-" #tp ".i586.tgz T:"))
(delete (cat "turboprint-" #tp ".i586.tgz"))
(complete 50)

(copyfiles
   (prompt   "Copying printers directory")
   (source   (cat "T:turboprint-" #tp "/printers"))
   (dest   "TurboPrint:printers/")
   (help   @copyfiles-help)
   (pattern "#?.tpp")
)
(complete 75)

(copyfiles
   (prompt   "Copying colors directory")
   (source   (cat "T:turboprint-" #tp "/colors"))
   (dest   "TurboPrint:colors/")
   (help   @copyfiles-help)
   (pattern "#?.tpm")
)

Ie. downloads some updated files from an FTP server. By the name of the archive it would seem to be a package for the Intel Pentium architecture. But not having downloaded the 16Mb I can't be sure.

Title: Re: TurboPrint Update
Post by: Daedalus on October 05, 2011, 10:44:24 AM

That's a little odd... Is it downloading Linux drivers and shoving them into the Amiga Turboprint installation? How is that ever going to work?

Title: Re: TurboPrint Update
Post by: Tension on October 05, 2011, 11:11:22 AM

rinters?

Title: Re: TurboPrint Update
Post by: Thomas on October 05, 2011, 11:55:38 AM

:Printers!

Title: Re: TurboPrint Update
Post by: Thomas on October 05, 2011, 11:58:38 AM

Quote from: Daedalus;662527

That's a little odd... Is it downloading Linux drivers and shoving them into the Amiga Turboprint installation? How is that ever going to work?

Turboprint "drivers" are mostly text files telling the actual program what to do with the data. So if the format of the text files has not changed in the Linux version, they might still work with the old Amiga software.

Title: Re: TurboPrint Update
Post by: Daedalus on October 05, 2011, 12:47:25 PM

Hmmm, very interesting... I might give that a look so - haven't used Turboprint since I got my new printer a few years back since it wasn't supported... Will pull some of it apart and see what the deal is.

Title: Re: TurboPrint Update
Post by: Jose on October 05, 2011, 02:52:54 PM

If it works it's F* awesome:)

Title: Re: TurboPrint Update
Post by: LaserBack on October 06, 2011, 08:53:28 AM

Quote from: Thomas;662534

Turboprint "drivers" are mostly text files telling the actual program what to do with the data. So if the format of the text files has not changed in the Linux version, they might still work with the old Amiga software.

"drivers" are mostly text files  but it doesnt works
I used the installer on aminet and all new drivers for linux were installed on turboprint/printers
that's a big mistake I don't know who made that stupidity
and when load a new driver on turboprint prefs says "wrong driver version or driver faulty"
however the driver is loaded

anyone have tested those new drivers?

Title: Re: TurboPrint Update
Post by: Tension on October 06, 2011, 11:10:43 AM

rinters?

Title: Re: TurboPrint Update
Post by: Thomas on October 06, 2011, 11:31:58 AM

Quote from: Tension;662666

rinters?

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?p=662533#post662533

:P with lower-case p results in :p

Title: Re: TurboPrint Update
Post by: Tension on October 06, 2011, 12:24:08 PM

Quote from: Thomas;662668

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?p=662533#post662533

:P with lower-case p results in :p

aah! Doesnt show up on my mobile lol

Title: Re: TurboPrint Update
Post by: José Manuel on November 24, 2011, 10:41:51 AM

Has anyone tried this update with new printers?