Actually, that's exactly what jd.exe does from the wattcp/pprd package, too. "Send job to printer or spooler using direct protocol."
http://archives.scovetta.com/pub/simtelnet/msdos/lan/pprd200.zip Source code is included. The nice thing is that it uses printer configuration from wattcp.cfg, so it'a bit more 'integrated' than a general-purpose netcat. Mateusz On 07/18/2014 06:06 AM, Michael B. Brutman wrote: > On 7/17/2014 1:49 PM, Jim Michaels wrote: >> for the network stufff, I was thinking of opening a socket and just dumping >> the printer data from stdin or from a file depnding on commandline options. >> it' >> s the easiest way to go. sockets is probably about 10-20 lines of code I >> think. >> google sockets example (or look in the source code of the telnet program in >> wattcp). >> then it's not >> >> >> DHCP printers are another thing altogether. they do exist, they seem to be >> the consumer printers like officejets and like printers that have wifi or >> ethernet. they default to DHCP, but can be manually config'd for static >> (works better I think with static, just make sure ip is outside of DHCP >> range). >> >> not sure how to handle usb printers at this point. I know they are packet >> driven. usb.org has the specs. usb 2.0 uses 8b/10b but usb 3.0 uses >> 128b/132b encoding. >> > > You are aware that netcat already exists and has the capabilities that > you wrote about - the ability to open a socket to the printer and send > data from stdin or a file. > > (See my email to this list dated July 12th.) > > > Mike > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and > search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck > Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code > search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
