[Xitami] Xitami and basic

[Marc Doigny]

At 20:22 2/12/01, you wrote:
> >  power basic from powerbasic.com
>
>An interesting product. Amazing that he has kept it going for 2 decades
>against Mighty MicroSoft.
>
> >  an internet printer... It reads its mail via pop-3 like an ordinary 
> mail client and prints it out.
>
>An interesting way to print. I have printers where if you do an FTP STOR
>to them, they "store" the file as ink on paper.
>Never heard of one with an email interface, but that would be convenient
>for many people.
It's a Phaser 840 and it has _ALSO_ ftp, but i can't use it since ftp 
requests are handled by Xitami and i have only ONE ip address: so local ftp 
to the printer works correcly, but when i connect from the outside world to 
the company's lan it's Xitami that handles the requests. The isp's NAT 
sends http request to one local ip, ftp to another (or the same) ip, smtp 
to a third, and so on). I don't know if there is a way to (re)direct 
request from xitami to the printer.
btw, the new phaser 850 can handle mime.

>Is the printer itself getting mail from the POP mailbox, or are you
>using a DOS/Win machine to get mail and give it to the printer?
It's a real RIP printer that reads a pop-3 mailbox. It has also something 
called IPP (internet printing protocol, sort of a web-like interface) but 
my isp prohibits using the IPP port :-((


> >  can also print postscript files,
>
>OK, it is a PS printer that can auto-switch from text to PostScript.
>
> > but it can't handle mime.

Thank you for your comments on mime-decoding.
I was planning to write one by myself but since somebody else has already 
done it ...


Marc

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