Re: Possibility to output to two destinations from one lp5250d writer

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 09:11:34AM +0300, elmars.ositis@xxxxxx wrote:

> I was wondering if it is possible to send lp5250d output to two 
> destinations from one source.

It should work to send the output of scs2ascii through standard unix
tool "tee" to a file, e.g.:

lp5250d env.DEVNAME=LINPRT1 env.IBMMFRTYPMDL='*OKI184IBM' \
outputcommand='scs2ascii | tee archive-file | lpr -Poki' as400sys

If You need to send to two commands instead of a command and a file,
You can replace the file by a FIFO, AKA "named pipe":

mkfifo /tmp/lp5250d-fifo
whatever-command < /tmp/lp5250d-fifo &
lp5250d outputcommand='scs2ascii | tee /tmp/fifo | lpr -Poki' as400sys

> The request by users is to be able to receive both a paper and text 
> version of all printed reports. Is is possible to run a parralel output 
> command to send one output to a printer and a second to a file? The print 
> volume is pretty high: 200-300 jobs per day, so it is not possible to drop 
> one writer, to replace with another to reprint all reports to file, and 
> then restore. Report generation is automatic based on system activities, 
> so the print capability needs to be full time online.