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- From: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael D Kretzer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
- Subject: Re: IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1, lprmon--does it work?
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 23:29:21 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- References: <92324.162639ROSE@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
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- Originator: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
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- From article <92324.162639ROSE@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>, by <ROSE@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>:
- > Has anyone managed to get lprmon to work? I originally installed my
- > OS/2 system with an IBM Proprinter on lpt1. Now I want to use lprmon
- > to redirect output from lpt1 to a network printer which happens to be
- > an HP Laserjet III. On OS/2 I've installed the HP Laserjet printer driver
- > as the default printer and on the WordPerfect for windows side, I've
- > installed the corresponding printer driver. The redirected printer file
- > will not print because it has some control characters at the top that
- > look like IBM proprinter control codes and escape sequences. I have
- > successfully printed a WordPrefect file to disk and used lpr to print to
- > the HP Laserjet. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong or what's happening?
- >
- > I am using OS/2 version 2.0 (I've installed no maintenance/upgrades) and
- > I only have one parallel port.
-
- I am using IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1 with the latest CSDs and lprmon works fine.
- All I did was add the 'binary' option (I forget the switch name.../b or
- something like that). So my startup.cmd has the line 'lprmon /b LPT1'
- (or something to that effect...sorry, I don't have my TCP/IP machine
- handy at the moment).
-
- I installed the HP Laserjet IIIsi Postscript drivers (that's our network
- printer), and now everything that goes out through LPT1 from any DOS,
- Windows, or OS/2 printer works fine (I've used WordPerfect for DOS to
- print things...and several Windows programs)...
-
- You also might need to check your network printer host to see if you're
- passing it the 'binary' switch properly. It might be filtering the strings
- it sends to the printer, so they end up being printed 'raw'...
-