home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!psinntp!psinntp!amexatg!croyer
- From: croyer@atg.amex-trs.com (Chuck Royer)
- Subject: Using RS/6000 for mainframe printing
- Sender: root@atg.amex-trs.com (Root user)
- Message-ID: <Bu9rKt.oDx@atg.amex-trs.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:07:40 GMT
- Reply-To: croyer@atg.amex-trs.com
- Organization: American Express Advanced Technology Group
- Keywords: Printing HCON
- Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
- Lines: 34
-
- Configuration: RS/6000 530 running AIX 3.2 (NO PATCHES) with IBM 4019
- laser printer attached to parallel port lp0.
-
- My organization wants to use the 4019 laser printer as a mainframe printer.
- We have had an LU set up and a printer ID assigned for this. I have set
- up an HCON session that sends the printer output to the 4019 printer queue
- "asc" (ASCII print queue). All this seems to work except the printer will
- print ONLY ONE LINE PER PAGE.
-
- I have directed the output to a file rather than a print queue and the file
- contains no extra page feed commands. In fact, this file can be printed
- just fine with the "lpr" command to the ASCII printer. I can also use
- /dev/lp0 as the file and the printer will print the job fine. The problem
- here is that this bypasses the print queue mechanism and problems with
- contention cannot be avoided.
-
- Has anyone successfully set up a 4019 printer in this manner? Does anyone
- know if the print stream is modified by HCON when a job is sent to a printer
- queue as opposed to a file? I plan to experiment with the virtual printer
- settings for the ASCII print queue, but I don't understand why this is
- necessary when everything else prints OK.
-
- Any help would be greatly appreciated. Send e-mail and I will summarize if
- there is interest.
-
- --
-
- **********************************************************
- Chuck Royer
- Computer Horizons Corporation
- On contract to: American Express Advanced Technology Group
- Internet: croyer@atg.amex-trs.com
- Voice: (602) 548-6020
- **********************************************************
-