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- From: charles@gremlin.muug.mb.ca (Charles)
- Subject: Re: IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1, lprmon--does it work?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.165125.22718@gremlin.muug.mb.ca>
- Organization: The Haunted Unix Box
- References: <92324.162639ROSE@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:51:25 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- <ROSE@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
-
- >Has anyone managed to get lprmon to work?
-
- Yup! Works great! (only used it twice though, once to test it from OS/2
- and once from WIN-OS/2, Was neat to finally see some graphics come out of
- my Unix printer :) )
-
- >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?
-
- Did you try the -b(inary) option of lprmon? I've never tried it w/o, but
- with it, graphics come out just fine on a Panasonic 1091 connected to a
- unix machine. I believe the binary option instructs lpd on the server to
- leave the file alone, and not to pipe it through any filters.
-
- >I am using OS/2 version 2.0 (I've installed no maintenance/upgrades) and
- >I only have one parallel port.
-
- You should install the TCP 2274 CSD that was just posted to
- comp.binaries.os2. It solved several problems I was having.
-
- Btw, I've never tried this, but I'm 99.9% sure you don't need physical
- serial ports in order to use redirection. Ie, You could have left your
- Proprinter on hardware LPT1 and installed your LaserJet driver for LPT2
- and just use lprmon on LPT2 to send to the network.
-
- Charles
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