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
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