[mod.computers.laser-printers] Accessing Imagen 8/300's from System V systems

VICTOR@YKTVMX ("Victor S. Miller") (11/13/86)

We currently have one (soon to be two) Imagen 8/300's on our local ethernet.
We are running the Imagen supplied programs to convert troff output to
Impress on one of our Sun's.  Everything works fine from the other suns.
However, we now have a number (still growing) of System V machines (RT/PC's)
on our network.  How can they access the same facilities as the Suns?
The itroff shell script supplied by Imagen assumes that it is running on
a 4.2 system.  Any suggestions are appreciated.
                    Victor S. Miller

CPR@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris Ryland) (11/19/86)

The latest host softwre release from Imagen (2.3)
has System V support.  If the RT/PCs use 4.X style sockets
for TCP/IP communications, you can probably forge a working
spooler from this release.  If not, you can probably hack
the given Sys V spoolers to do what you want.  Or, bug Imagen
to do it for you.
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