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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:42:35 EDT
- From: <RXM108@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92211.134235RXM108@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Neat Printing Quest!
- Lines: 51
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- I have an interesting quest here.... One that most likely has already
- been accompolished, but I am writing here to find out. Here is my
- current situation:
- I have a PC lab of about 5 PS2's and one AT laserprinter station. Every
- PC has a direct 10baseT direct ethernet connection to the backbone. I
- also have a local SUN network, thinwire connection to the backbone. I
- am currently using PCTCP on all the PC's to connect to the outside
- world. While messing around with PCTCP (I am still learning here... :)
- I realized it is quite easy to dump print files using PCTCP's "LPR"
- command. What I would LOVE to do is somehow harness this printing
- capability so I could have users laserprint directly to the PostScript
- HP laserjet IIID that we have on the nearby SUN network.
- Currently, users have to do
- their work, and bring their disk over to the printing station. I'm sure
- all of you who deal with this printing method realize how easy it is for
- users to screw up configurations and get improper output. Users also
- hog the Laserprinter station and other users wanting to print get
- irritated. My quest is to be able to set LPT1 on each machine to the
- locally attached dot matrix printer for draft printing use, and set LPT2
- to, say, a generic PostScript driver like the Apple Laserwriter that
- would actually "re-route" LPT2 output to the PostScript printer on the
- SUN network. I have been able to compile PostScript printcode from all
- of our used applications, quit that application, load the ethernet
- driver, then LPR it over and have it print. I would like the
- aforementioned steps to be transparent to the user......
- They would only seem to be printing to a locally attached printer. Is
- there some way to trick the PostScript code into bypassing the harddrive
- where it is currently being compiled and go straight out to the SUN
- network printer? I have checked with many local people and they say it
- sounds like a neat idea but have never come across any *ware that does
- it.
- Also..... I use InterDrive to mount UNIX filesystems as local external
- drives on my PC's. This works great for back-ups, installing software,
- etc. But I would really like to be able to mount other PC drives from
- another PC... same network configuration as mentioned previously. We
- have a CD-ROM that I would love to be able to access from a machine
- elsewhere....
- Lastly.. I have heard of a piece of software called SOSS (Son of Stan's
- Server??) Will this do what I am looking for? As far as I could tell,
- it could not. I tried to get a more in-depth analysis of the program
- but had no luck. Any help from you out there would be GREATLY
- appreciated.. Also, If I do get some software working that does all
- this.. credit will be given appropriately! Thanks for all your help,
- call me at the numbers below if you would like to talk direct. Later!!
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- |Roderick Murchison, Jr. Population Research Institute|
- |office: (814) 863-8321 Penn State University |
- |fax: (814) 863-8342 rxm108@psuvm.psu.edu |
- |home: (814) 867-1999 murchiso@darwin.psu.edu |
- | "Friends don't let friends use WordPerfect" |
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