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From: Brian McCauley <B.A.McCauley@bham.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Host Printing
Date: 27 Nov 1998 10:22:47 +0000
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Goran Nordin <pmuggcc@ibm.net> writes:
> I have not used Kermit for several years but now when needing something
> that can pass printouts from a UNIX host to a PC connected printer I
> remembered that such a function existed in MS-KERMIT.
> Does this functionality also exist in Kermit 95.
Of course.
> I am talking about the
> case where you initiate a printout that normally would go to a printer
> connected to the host, not printing what shows on the screen.
> I am grateful for any hints.
Many of the terminals emulated by K95 have escape sequences that can
be used to direct output to the a printer slaved off the terminal.
This is not so much a feature of Kermit as of the terminals it is
emmulating.
If your software on the host understands about this then it can use it.
In K95 (as in MSKERMIT) use the "SET PRINTER" command to specifty the
device of print queue to be used for these.
Alternatively you could run C-Kermit on the Unix host and do a "REMOTE
PRINT" provided you've not disabled AUTODOWNLOAD in K95. For large
printouts this has the advantage that the system does not appear to be
dead during the download.
It appears you have to use a temporary file on the Unix box as I
cannot figure how to get C-Kermit to do a "REMOTE PRINT" from STDIN.
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