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- From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: How to drive printer on X.25 PAD
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.082042.717@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 08:20:42 -0700
- References: <1992Jul16.155113.4335@verifone.com> <1992Jul20.133049.14034@slcs.slb.com>
- Organization: BC Systems Corporation
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1992Jul20.133049.14034@slcs.slb.com>, brydon@asl.slb.com (Harvey Brydon (713)274-8281) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul16.155113.4335@verifone.com>, jimmy_t@verifone.com writes:
- >>We are using the VAX PSI X.25 software. We will have one site that has
- >>a leased line public network X.25 connection and a printer attached to
- >>an RS-232 PAD port.
- >>
- >>Is there some way to set up a VMS print symbiont so that it will
- >>place a switched X.25 call whenever a print job is queued, and
- >>disconnect when the job has finished printing?
- >
- > There is a DEC Assets package that does this. I don't remember the name
- > but it is referred to as the X25 printer symbiont.
- >
- > Disclaimer: I don't use it but I use PSI and X.25 and have thought about
- > using it...
-
- We use it to drive some 200+ print queues over our internal X.25 network - some
- of the development for the symbiont was done on our site. The bottom line is
- that it does the job. You can't ask for more than that!
-
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- Ed Wilts, BC Systems Corp., 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8X 4S8
- EWilts@Galaxy.Gov.BC.CA | Ed.Wilts@BCSystems.Gov.BC.CA | (604) 389-3430
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