Re: how to get or send data with xemacs (to a device with an ip address)

Hello, I wrote an emacs macro to get input then send it to a Zebra 105-sl label printer. I need it to get some data from a counting scale as well. Both the counting scale and the Zebra printer have ip addresses on my network. Both have a simple web server that can be accessed by typing the ip address in a browser's URL bar. The Zebra at least supports telnet as well (and half a dozen other protocols--I have a list). I will be using this on Slackware, SLAMD64, and Windows (if possible). The programming language of the printer is all ascii text, so maybe 20 lines of text needs to be sent. How do you get Xemacs to send ascii text data to a printer that has an IP address? How can you read text from a scale that is on the network? Backing up a step, how do you get Linux to do that without doing it in Xemacs? I don't know. Are there packages or examples to do this? I'm willing to do the research, but need help getting pointed in the right direction.