kshaffer@modcomp.UUCP (Ken Shaffer) (09/20/90)
Is there some PD program which would allow a PC to be a print server? What I would like to do: Have a printable file available on some PC, ftp to the print server, send the printable file to the print server to device PRN. Hopefully, the print server will recognize the special device PRN and queue the file to a spooler for printing. It would be even more wonderful if the server program could be a TSR so that the print server PC could also be used as a PC while queuing takes place. Ken Shaffer modcomp!kshaffer
BHOLMES@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU (Brian Holmes) (09/20/90)
On Wed, 19 Sep 90 19:58:22 GMT Ken Shaffer said: >What I would like to do: Have a printable file available on some PC, >ftp to the print server, send the printable file to the print server >to device PRN. > I believe a version of KA9Q was modified to do just this. I'm not sure if this was ever incorporated into the generally distributed version on thumper.bellcore.co though. Also, Clarkson's and NCSA's TCP/IP packages cna do this also. >It would be even more wonderful if the server program could be a TSR >so that the print server PC could also be used as a PC while queuing >takes place. > None of the above solutions will run as a TSR. Sorry! Brian Holmes UCC Network Management PHONE: (313) 577-3750 FAX=577-5626 Wayne State University BITNET: BHOLMES@WAYNEST1 5925 Woodward INTERNET: BHOLMES@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU Detroit, MI 48202 U.S.A
champlin@decwrl.dec.com (Virgil Champlin) (09/20/90)
I would like to do the opposite. Send a file from a pc to a Unix box
for printing using "lpd". There is just such a creature with the PCIP
implementation from Clarkson called LPR and although I haven't used it
yet, it looks mostly like what I want. I say "mostly" because there are
still many dos programs that insist upon using the printer port directly
with no chance to redirect to a file. If they do let you output to a
file, it produces a "sanitized" version that doesn't take advantage of
the printer type that you know you will eventually use. What I seem
to need is a tsr that will redirect to a file that I can then use LPR
on. Any suggestions are welcome and since I know so little about dos,
source code would be really appreciated. Thanks, -virgil
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Virgil Champlin champlin@nsl.dec.com
Palo Alto, CA
"I got it, I got it, I ain't got it."champlin@WRL.DEC.COM (Virgil Champlin) (09/21/90)
Thank you very much, David. I am off to fetch it now. -virgil
fks@FTP.COM (Frances Selkirk) (09/21/90)
What you want is a print redirector. A print redirector catches bits bound for the printer (by intercepting at interrupt 17), saves them to a temporary file, and shoots them off to a network printer. Sun Microsystems has a print redirector as a standard part of their PC-NFS product, and we (FTP Software) have recently added one to our PC/TCP. Those are the only commercial print redirectors I am aware of, but there are probably public domain ones also. The file created (in our package; not sure of others) is not preserved, but if what you want in 'taking advantage of the printer type,' is to preserve configuration done by the DOS application, a print redirector will do that for you. Print redirectors vary in what print programs they use, but ours, at least, has lpr as an option. Frances Kirk Selkirk info@ftp.com (617) 246-0900 FTP Software, Inc. 26 Princess Street, Wakefield, MA 01880