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- From: rhorner@ugly.UVic.CA (Roger Horner)
- Subject: Re: Printing from Unix to a printer attached to PC terminal
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 20:33:48 GMT
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- In article <2B4DDB1A.14864@ics.uci.edu> wngai@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Wayne Ngai) writes:
- > Hi! I was wondering if there is/are any existing program(s) out
- >there that would allow for a PC terminal to print a file on the Unix
- >machine to the local printer that's attached to the PC terminal. e.g.
- >say I'm hook up to a Unix machine via modem, and I want to print a
- >file on the Unix machine to my PC printer. Is there anyway of doing
- >that without having to download the file to my PC and do some
- >conversion to printout the file? i.e. sending the print job to
- >printer attached to terminal. If there is such a program, could some
- >kind soul please tell me where and how can I get a hold of it?
-
- There is a C program at oak.oakland.edu in /pub/msdos/kermit called pcprint.c.
- You can either download this file and compile it on your UNIX machine, or you
- can create the following csh script file which was copied from the MS-KERMIT
- USERS GUIDE:
- -----------------------------CUT HERE-------------------------------
- #!/bin/sh
- # pcprint
- # usage: pcprint file(s)
- # or <any UNIX process that writes to standard output> | pcprint
- #
- echo -n '[5i'
- if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
- cat
- else
- cat $*
- fi
- echo -n '[4i'
- -----------------------------CUT HERE-------------------------------
-
- Both of these programmes use a feature of the VT100 terminal which many but not
- all terminal emulators provide (MS-KERMIT and Bitcom do, but Q-Modem does not).
-
- I hope this helps.
- --
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- Roger Horner (rhorner@sirius.UVic.ca) University of Victoria
- 4th Year Electrical Engineering Student Victoria, BC, Canada
- If you don't like my spelling, use a real dictionary!
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