Re: Help with TN5250 Printing

Hi,

Lowercase t is for a trace file.  I noticed that I gave you a little bit
of incorrect information.  The printer manufacturer needs to be specified
with an asterisk in front of it.  Here is the command line:

lp5250d -s linuxopt2 -T "*HP4" -P "scs2ascii | lpr -Plinuxoptra" 10.2.0.26

Let me know if you have any other trouble.

Mike

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Mike wrote:

> GRreat help, we finally got a connection and job completed, and print output
> to the printer!  However, it was all garbage output.  Also it would not
> allow a configuration with the uppercase T, I had to change that to a
> lowercase t to get it to work.  Here's some spec's.
> 
> printer is set to PCL5   it's a Lexmark OptraR
> on the '400 side, our virtual session had host print transform set to *NO,
> and no printer manufacturer defined, we tried it that way, then we changed
> it to *YES and HP4, but evidentally it reconfigures the virtual device each
> time as we checked it after our last run, and it retained the HP4 for
> manufacturer model, but host print transform had been changed back to *NO.
> You got us this far hope you can identify what else we're doing wrong.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jason M. Felice <jfelice@cronosys.com>
> To: <LINUX5250@midrange.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 8:12 AM
> Subject: Re: Help with TN5250 Printing
> 
> 
> > Mike wrote:
> >
> > > tn5250 -P  -s linuxopt2 -T HP4   10.2.0.26 | lpr -Plinuxoptra
> >
> > Using version 0.15.8, you will need to use the lp5250d command (see the
> > manpage for details).  For prior versions, you will need to supply the
> > 'lpr -Plinuxoptra' command as an argument to tn5250 - lpr needs to
> > be started once for each print session.
> >
> > Like this:
> >
> > tn5250 -P 'lpr -Plinuxoptra' -T HP4 10.2.0.26
> >
> > Older yet versions had separate options to start a printer session and
> > to supply the print command, but as much as I remember that, I can't
> > seem to find that method in CVS (I went back as far as 0.15.4).
> >
> > -Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
> > (Playing with Netscape Messenger, hope this isn't HTML)
> >
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