ISSKO@NUSVM.BITNET (Kace Ong) (04/28/89)
{also in response to Bill and James of FTP}
Thanks for responding. FTP apparently is very knowledgeable about
this field. Both of you claim it is difficult to port PC-IP to OS/2,
but I do have one response from Harish Pillay (harish@ece.orst.edu)
who used to intern in Microsoft who claims that it is straight forward
porting. Maybe Microsoft employee knows something that we don't
(if that is so, it doesn't surprise me :-)
To reiterate my project, I believe I can trap the print request easily.
Method : All files have to be spooled to disk first, and by setting the
LPT to a custom device driver, I can detect the moment LANMAN tries to Open
the LPT device --- voila! that is the time the entire file has completed
spooling. Now just invoke LPR with the filename. And no SMB decoding
needed.
So the only snag is an OS/2 compatible LPR program. That's all I need
really. I'll go ahead and try to do a quick'n'dirty port of the pcip
package, and hopefully we'll be able to post some status soon.
Bill: I wonder if you can send me the NDIS stuffs you mentioned as I cannot
ftp.
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Kace Ong Institute of Systems Science
Singapore
**************************************jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) (04/28/89)
v1.0.1 of the NDIS spec is available for anonymous FTP from venera.isi.edu and vax.ftp.com. Regrettably, the machine-readable document is 174K long, so it can't be e-mailed across net boundaries, and I personally don't like the spec enough to cut it up into 8 or 10 little files on my own time (the Packet Driver spec is 27K, and I will e-mail that, eventually). It might be good for NDIS acceptance if Microsoft chose to make it available in e-mailable pieces, but it would also be good if they made the Protocol Manager available separate from LANMan. (I know you're listening, consider yourselves hinted at. Twice.) James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880 FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901