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- From: simon@internode.com.au (Simon Hackett)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: followon to last query about networkable printers
- Message-ID: <9212221558.AA26112@wraith.internode.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:28:50 +1030
- Organization: Info-Multinet<==>Vmsnet.Networks.Tcp-Ip.Multinet Gateway
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- > The Multinet PCU utility looks like it links VMS queues to remote TCP/IP
- > printers. What printers has this been used with successfully? Any PostScript
- > printers? Is bi-directional communication possible with such printers?
- > JON MELVIN jdm@caltech.edu
-
- Postscript is a very common target printer type for the MultiNet
- remote printer queue stuff.
-
- The PCU supports two sorts of printer queues - one sort which use the
- Unix-ish "LPR/LPD" protocol to let you spool to anything which speaks
- that protocol (e.g. many unix variants, many network-attached spooler
- boxes of various sorts, etc etc).
-
- The second sort is a "STREAM" connection, which hooks the print queue
- to a TCP port number that you specify, on an IP node that you
- specify. This works for printers from various vendors which support a
- TCP/IP-port-over-ethernet connection, as well as most TCP/IP-capable
- terminal servers, which generally let you configure serial ports for
- a fixed TCP port number, and then use this STREAM symbiont to link
- that port to a printer, just like you can do with LAT ports on a
- DECserver (only much better, since TCP/IP connections are far more
- resilient than LAT connections).
-
- I have used both extensively. It all works pretty well, with the
- exception of some occasional problems with some terminal servers
- negotiating themelves into a corner with respect to telnet options,
- and thus resulting in incorrect behaviour with respect to line
- terminations (too few linefeeds in the resulting output, or sometimes
- problems with doubled up "0xff" characters). These can generally be
- resolved easily with some fiddling, and in particular the use of a
- few logical names that control the behaviour of the symbiont. Write
- to service@tgv.com if you run into problems of this sort using the
- STREAM symbiont, none of them are very hard to deal with.
-
- Simon
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