fredrick@acd.ucar.edu (Tim Fredrick) (01/25/91)
For those of you who want to use GatorPrint to print PostScript files from an IBM Risc-System 6000 (AIX3.1.3002), using "rembak" without the "-N" option for "Non AIX support" causes the GatorBox to crash horribly with no indication what happened, loosing the entire LocalTalk network. I sent these instructions to Cayman and am relaying them here in case anyone else is has a similar configuration: The default for the program "rembak" on the Risc System 6000 is to send a modified lpd packet across the network when printing to a remote printer. However, with the "-N" option, it tries to send BSD standard lpd packets. So, the steps for an AIX3.1 system to use gatorprint are as follows: 1) Suppose we have a printer called "acdps2s" on a Gatorbox known as gator2.acd.ucar.edu. We want to set up printing to that printer from an AIX3.1 system through gator2. In GatorKeeper the printer was configured to accept raw PostScript (although I imagine configuring it to translate text files into postscript isn't any problem). 2) Take down any printer known as "acdps2s" on the AIX system. The command is "disable acdps2s", executed as root. 3) Edit your /etc/qconfig file and make sure the queue entries look something like this: acdps2s: host = gator2.acd.ucar.edu up = TRUE s_statfilter = /usr/lpd/bsdshort l_statfilter = /usr/lpd/bsdlong rq = acdps2s device = drp2s drp2s: backend = /usr/lpd/rembak -N 4) There are man pages to rembak and to qconfig if you're interested in knowing what you're doing at this point. 5) Now, enter "enable acdps2s" to start up the queue. 6) Try it out. I have a utility called "psprint" which you can get via anonymous ftp from acd.ucar.edu (128.117.32.1). Ultimately it would be good if the GatorBox could respond in some other way than crashing if it receives what it believes are bogus lpd packets. Good Luck. -- Tim -- Tim Fredrick National Center for Atmospheric Research Atmospheric Chemistry Division fredrick@ncar.ucar.edu PO Box 3000 fredrick@ncar.CSNET Boulder, CO 80307