dkovar@VAX.BBN.COM (02/09/88)
At the time this discussion went by I was not worrying about printing using CAP. Now that the discussion has died down I am, naturally, trying to improve our printing services. I've located pstext and got papif up and running nicely. I did not enable the STATUS code as it locked up papif in some manner or another on our Masscomps and I did not have the time to deal with it. I even found some code from somewhere that will do banner pages at the beginning or end of the job as long as a .banner file is present. And there is the rub. Is there something out there that will generate a nice .banner file or should I just cook up a quick routine to do it based on the user name and host? Lastly, does anyone have a routine that will reverse the order of the pages? It should not be too hard to do if you just scan through looking for "showpages" and do some reordering but, again, I lack the time to play with such things at the moment. Hmm, and while I am asking, does anyone have a modification to pstext that will put a header on the top of each page? I've already hacked papif and pstext a bit so making papif pass the file name, user name, or whatever to pstext will not be too much more work. To anyone who is curious, we did get CAP up and running using a Kinetics Multibus card along with a local driver on a two CPU Masscomp. I tore out all of the DDP and lower levels, removed abSleep in favor of a Masscomp priority handling scheme and packets now get delivered differently, but it all seems to work, at least as far as NBP and PAP go. Next step is to check out aufs. -David Kovar DKovar@BBN.COM