john@compugen.UUCP (John Beaudin) (02/02/90)
If you've succeeded in doing this, what's the secret? -- -- my .signature is awaiting appropriate display technology --
davee@esfenn.UUCP (Dave Edick) (02/06/90)
No, you can't have a Novell window, but you use Novell with DV. You have to load the Netware shell before loading DV. Doesn't work at all the other way around. Once you do that, you can either login before loading DV, or after from a window. In either case, you'll have the server available from all windows.
regan@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Kenneth Regan) (02/07/90)
In article <530@esfenn.UUCP> davee@.UUCP (Dave Edick) writes: > >No, you can't have a Novell window, but you use Novell with DV. You have to >load the Netware shell before loading DV. Doesn't work at all the other way >around. Once you do that, you can either login before loading DV, or after >from a window. In either case, you'll have the server available from all >windows. Here's what I'd like to do under DV'386 (with QEMM): set up a process which will spool output from our Unix network (say a FrameMaker PostScript file from someone's Sun), feed it into Ultrascript on my '386 AT-bus machine (8Mb RAM), and print it on an HP LaserJet II connected via LPT1. I'll be getting a vanilla Ethernet card and a TCP/IP package for the '386. Can this be done fairly painlessly, or should I seriously think about getting a hardware PostScript board for the LJII and hooking it directly to the network (with a PostScript Unix printcap)? Thanks for any answers. I made a similar query to comp.lang.postscript and comp.text a month ago, but neither the replies nor a host of phone calls has turned up a definitive answer for me to summarize. Kenneth W. Regan Assistant Professor Computer Science Dept. (Opinions not < SUNYaB) SUNY at Buffalo, 226 Bell Hall Tel.: (716) 636-3189, -3180 Buffalo, NY 14260 regan@cs.buffalo.edu
davee@esfenn.UUCP (Dave Edick) (02/12/90)
In article <17127@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> regan@castor.cs.Buffalo.EDU.UUCP (Kenneth Regan) writes: >Here's what I'd like to do under DV'386 (with QEMM): set up a process which >will spool output from our Unix network (say a FrameMaker PostScript file from >someone's Sun), feed it into Ultrascript on my '386 AT-bus machine (8Mb RAM), >and print it on an HP LaserJet II connected via LPT1. I'll be getting a >vanilla Ethernet card and a TCP/IP package for the '386. > >Can this be done fairly painlessly, or should I seriously think about getting >a hardware PostScript board for the LJII and hooking it directly to the >network (with a PostScript Unix printcap)? > Well, for one thing, you'll probably have a difficult time getting the TCP/IP software to run properly with Novell. They'll both fight over the Ethernet board unless you're using packet drivers for the TCP/IP software. Secondly, I don't know how well Ultrascript will work in processing network print jobs. I've never tried anything like this, but I'd suspect that it would be pretty unreliable if it worked at all. Painlessly? Definitely not. You'll undoubetedly have to put up a real fight to get all those packages to work together. Sorry.... I'd recommend something like the Pacific Data Postscript cartridge. That will make the LJII look like a real postscript printer to any machine. Most of the postscript boards for the LJII plug into a PC slot and act as a parallel port to the PC. Meaning you're stuck with hooking it up to the PC. With the Pacific Data cartridge, you could plug the LJII straight into the Sun.