[net.lang] PROBLEMS WITH RMCOBOL AND TWO PRINTER SETUP

audreyf@killer.UUCP (Audrey Fischer) (10/03/86)

     We are currently having a BIG problem trying to get two printers to
work under RMcobol version 2.0d (or 2.1a2). The only solutions given by
RM and AT&T is to:
1. write the second file to disk instead of to a printer and then use a 
system call to spool the file to the printer. The problem(s) with this
are numerous, mostly that it is hard to implement in multi-user. Disk
space is also a factor.
2. Open one file, print and then close it and then open the second print
file etc. This is somewhat workable, but RM's manual claims there is a
way to simultaneously open printer files.

In the RM manual, they claim that runconfig.c (which contains a synonym
table that associates COBOL names with actual UNIX devices) can be setup
to have the COBOL name PRINTER associated with UNIX /bin/lpr (which
doesn't exist).
Is anyone currently running an application that uses two printers from
the same program???? Thanks in advance.