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- From: fhl@milton.u.washington.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
- Subject: Re: Can LPRMON work with more than one port?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.193803.3012@u.washington.edu>
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- Summary: Yes
- Sender: Dean Pentcheff
- Reply-To: dean2@tbone.biol.scarolina.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
- Organization: Department of Biology, University of South Carolina, Columbia
- References: <1992Dec18.195724.11221@stiatl.salestech.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 19:38:03 GMT
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- iam@stiatl.salestech.com (Ian Mercado) writes:
- >Under Beame & Whiteside for DOS, you could route any of your LPTx: ports to
- >any network server. I only seem to be able to route one port to one printer
- >at any given time with LPRMON. Am I missing something...or is this just
- >a TCP/IP for OS/2 limitation?
-
- You can run as many LPRMON processes as you like (well... OK, within
- limits). Each LPRMON process handles one port. For example, on one
- of our machines we fire off two LPRMON processes to redirect both
- LPT1 and LPT2. The lines in our "startup.cmd" file are:
-
- start lprmon -b -php3ps -sfiddler lpt1
- start lprmon -b -pbinary -stbone lpt2
-
- LPT1 is shunted off to a laser printer on machine "fiddler" (another
- OS/2 machine) and LPT2 is shunted off to a dot matrix printer on a Unix
- box.
-
- At any time, you can kill off an LPRMON process and fire off another
- one. So, if I wanted to, I could stop the LPT1 process and re-redirect
- the port to some other printer.
-
- -Dean
- --
- [NOTE: my email address is different from where I read and post net news.]
- Dean Pentcheff (Internet: dean2@tbone.biol.scarolina.edu) (803) 777-8998
- Department of Biology, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC 29205
-