[5518] in java-interest
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pat Niemeyer)
Thu Feb 15 04:56:54 1996
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 02:35:56 -0600 (CST)
From: Pat Niemeyer <pat@icon-stl.net>
To: Leslie Baski <leslieb@sdgroup.com>
cc: "'java-interest@java.sun.com'" <java-interest@java.sun.com>
In-Reply-To: <01BAFAEF.DCEA99C0@leslie>
On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, Leslie Baski wrote:
> Please help!
>
> I am building a Java Applet survey form I want the user to be able to make entries and print a hard copy to there printer. How to you get from an applet to the printer. There seems to be a lot of print methods but none that actually do anything, like
spool to a user defined print queue.
Unless you are going to do something very unusual or dynamic, you probably
don't need Java to implement a form. Forms are already there in HTML.
Write a CGI and have the hit "print" from their web browser (which is the
only piece of software that will likely be able to get to their printer).
Pat
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