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
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> Best of luck and hopefully we will be able to figure this out.
>
> Regards,
>
> GP Doyle
>
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