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List:       linux-msdos
Subject:    Re: Pass-Through Printing via Telnet in DOSEMU?
From:       Tasos Chronis <tchronis () contraste ! be>
Date:       1999-11-18 16:02:53
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Hey thanks.

I will also try it as soon as I can.
Lots of Y2K upgrades this time of year.

Take care.


Gregory Doyle wrote:
> 
> No Problem, I put the source of passprt in the original message to this thread, but \
> here it is again. I have an executable script file in my /usr/bin directory called \
> PASSPRT.  The script file sets up Pass Through Printing via a Telnet client.  The \
> script is as  follows: 
> printf "\033[5i\c"
> cat $*
> printf "\033[4i\c"
> 
> By the way I found this information at the following site:
> 
> http://www.anzio.com/support/printguide.htm
> 
> In the meantime I will play around with the timouts and see if that has any effect.
> --
> 
> On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 10:33:45   Tasos Chronis wrote:
> > It could be the timeout ?
> > Do you have the sources of the passprt program ?
> > (Personaly I could use it, it is a much cleaner solution
> > than mine)
> > 
> > Gregory Doyle wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:32:31   Tasos Chronis wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > > 
> > > > In the printer section of global.conf it have something
> > > > like that :
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > if (strlen($_printer))
> > > > foreach $xxx ($LIST_DELIM, $_printer)
> > > > $xxx = "'/usr/bin/webps ",$REMOTE_HOST,"'";
> > > > printer { options "< %s"  command $$xxx  timeout 40 }
> > > > done
> > > > endif
> > > > 
> > > > My global.conf file is included. Don't remember if I did any other
> > > > changes
> > > > for REMOTE_HOST.
> > > > 
> > > Learning from how you modified the global.conf file, I did the following to my \
> > > global.conf file 
> > > 
> > > if (strlen($_printer))
> > > foreach $xxx ($LIST_DELIM, $_printer)
> > > $xxx = "'/usr/bin/passprt '";
> > > printer { options "%s"  command $$xxx  timeout 40 }
> > > done
> > > endif
> > > 
> > > Anyhow this seems to route the printout to the local telnet printer, however \
> > > for some reason each print jobs bombs (ie. only a portion of the job gets the \
> > > the local telnet printer and the rest seems to get lost) 
> > > I then decided to change the global.conf file and change the printer line with \
> > > the following: 
> > > printer { file "filename"}
> > > 
> > > Upon exiting DOSEMU, at the shell prompt I then do: passprt "filename"
> > > 
> > > When I do this I get the entire printjob printing at the local telnet printer.  \
> > > Anybody know why this would be happening.  It seems somehow DOSEMU can send the \
> > > printout to a file, but something gets lost when I get DOSEMU to pipe it to the \
> > > executable script.  Anybody have any ideas or suggestions? 
> > > Thanks in advance
> > > 
> > > GP Doyle
> > > 
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> > 
> > --
> > 
> > Tasos Chronis
> > STATEL Help Desk
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> > 
> 
> Best of luck and hopefully we will be able to figure this out.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> GP Doyle
> 
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Tasos Chronis
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