CUNNINGHAMR%HAW.SDSCNET@LLL-MFE.ARPA.UUCP (06/07/86)
I want to set up queues for a couple of simple plotters, and need a "dumb" print symbiont that really doesn't mess with the data in a file at all. It should simply: take plot files off a queue, copy them to the dedicated (set spooled) device over a terminal line. Looks like I can't quite get what I need simply by cooking up a modified print symbiont using the PSM routines, so I'd have to build my own symbiont using the SMB stuff. While that'd probably be an interesting little project, I dislike re-inventing things. Anyone out there have such a symbiont that I could have a copy of? Failing that, any helpful hints to get me started? Bob Cunningham cunninghamr%haw.sdscnet@LLL-MFE.ARPA
CUNNINGHAMR%HAW.SDSCNET@LLL-MFE.ARPA.UUCP (06/10/86)
As several people have helpfully pointed out:
PRINT/PASSALL
does exactly what I need, copy files to a device without doing
any formatting.
No need for a special symbiont.
Bob Cunningham
cunninghamr%haw.sdsc@LLL-MFE.ARPAXBR1Y028@DDATHD21.BITNET.UUCP (06/14/86)
WIth PRINT/PASSALL it is not possible to charge your users for every printed page, since ACCOUNTing does not know about printed pages if you are using this for example on a laser printer. Then you need a special symbiont. Or you decide to charge your users on the base of a rule of thumb ACCOUNTing shows you two items: GETS from source and QIOs I think that is not a solution. We recently ran into that problem - I don't have solved it yet. Walter Reichenbaecher, XBR1Y028@DDATHD21 (in Bitnet) TH Darmstadt, HRZ