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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit and Remote Printing
Date: 27 Oct 1995 18:11:39 GMT
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In article <46l4gb$1th@ucthpx.uct.ac.za>,
Obie Oberholster <obie@elan.sfri.ac.za> wrote:
: I am quite new to this field and don't know kermit at all. I have a
: question that I hope one of the kermit boffins can help me solve. We
: have a UNIX box running IMPACT software under XENIX at one site, and a
: 486 DOS PC at a remote site. A printer is connected to the remote "DOS"
: site. The two sites are connected via modem. The "DOS" site has kermit
: installed on it.
:
: Now for the problem. We would like to do remote printing from the XENIX
: site on the DOS site's printer. Is there a way with kermit to do this,
: and if so, how do you do it. Even a reference to a site with kermit
: FAQ's will help. The DOS site is at a warehouse and usually
: "unattended". The XENIX site would like to print orders at the
: warehouse "automatically", so that the workers can just pick up the
: printout, and ship the order.
:
Follow the directions in the manual, "Using MS-DOS Kermit", for making
the PC the remote computer, and put it server mode. You can protect it
with a password, etc, if you want to.
Now C-Kermit on the Xenix computer can place a call to the PC's modem
and then simply:
send <filename> prn
More info about Kermit manuals and Kermit itself at:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/
- Frank