[BRLTTY] OT: embossing to network Index DV5 from Linux

[Devin Prater]

Thanks all for the help! After I put in the *correct* IP address, it 
works! Just a few oddities:


* When printing text files, like files in the Emacs Org-mode (.org) 
format, it comes out in computer braille. That's not too bad, actually.

* When printing out Microsoft Word files, (.docx), no formatting is 
preserved. Is there a way to preserve the formatting of the document?


Thanks all for the help!

On 12/15/20 1:26 PM, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> 	hello.  The Index embossers, when connected to a network, accept print
> jobs on port 9100/tcp for embossing.  If you arrange for Cups to send
> formatted brf data to port 9100 at your Index's IP address, you should get
> embossed output from the Index itself.  A common tool to do this is the nc
> command.  For my Index embosser, which I use in this manner, this works,
> modulo some timing caveats.  I won't detail those here, since I think
> they're probably firmware bugs that have been fixed in newer versions of
> the firmware, my Index is a pretty old machine.
>
> Hope that helps.
> -Brian
>
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