Look into pipes and smbprint (comes with samba). Sorry I can't be more specific than that, but I believe you can tie a program to a pipe (opening the pipe will invoke the program), and I've used smbprint (from within WP/SCO) to print from nix to a print queue on a windows server. That didn't have a print queue on the nix server, but don't forget WP had all its printer capability, drivers, the works, all built in.
Cheers, Wol -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dana Baron Sent: 04 March 2004 18:54 To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: RE: Printing to "local" printer Wol, Thanks for the idea. Looks promising but we're on a Unix server. Is there a way to refer to the local printers across operating systems? My SETPTR documentation refers to mode 2 and the DEVICE setting as sending output to the Unix special file. Can the shared printer be defined as a unix special file without setting up a network print queue? Dana Baron System Manager Smugglers' Notch Resort -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony Youngman Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 7:02 AM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: RE: Printing to "local" printer What I'd do ... This is UV, but I got the impression that UD might well work the same way ... A lot of our printers, rather than saying "AT DEVICE" in the SETPTR statement, say "AT \\windows\sharename". So each printer is set up on the local pc to which it is attached, and the UV server knows nothing about it at the Windows level (we have UV/NT). Cheers, Wol -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dana Baron Sent: 26 February 2004 19:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Printing to "local" printer Hi, We use Unidata (v5.2) on a DEC/Compaq/HP Alpha under Tru64 Unix (v5.0a). Most of our users connect to our Unidata system via terminal emulation software (SmartTerm) from Windows-based PCs. Some of those users function as point-of-sale terminals. We're now trying to integrate credit card validation via the internet directly from those work stations. We're still in test mode, but most of this seems to working OK. One remaining issue is printing the CC receipt. We would like the receipts to print on CC receipt printers attached to the workstation as either parallel or serial printers. We'd rather not set up print queues for all of these. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Dana Baron System Manager Smugglers' Notch Resort -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ************************************************************************ **** ******* This transmission is intended for the named recipient only. It may contain private and confidential information. If this has come to you in error you must not act on anything disclosed in it, nor must you copy it, modify it, disseminate it in any way, or show it to anyone. Please e-mail the sender to inform us of the transmission error or telephone ECA International immediately and delete the e-mail from your information system. Telephone numbers for ECA International offices are: Sydney +61 (0)2 9911 7799, Hong Kong + 852 2121 2388, London +44 (0)20 7351 5000 and New York +1 212 582 2333. ************************************************************************ **** ******* -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
