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I spent a bunch of time recently setting up an Okidata printer on my iSeries, attached through an HP Jetdirect external print server. After trying *IBMSNMPDRV and *IBMIPPDRV with no success, I opened a Supportline call rather than beat my head against the wall. They showed me how to do it with a remote output queue, but I really didn't want that as users are accustomed to 'devices' instead of 'writers' so I would get a lot less questions if it was a device. I could create a dummy device for the remote output queue, but it most definitely would have caused other problems. After pushing Supportline that I really really really wanted a device, both they and Roger Vicker (the same day) told me about the USRDRVPGM(TSPLPRD) parm of the CRTDEVPRT command that was available. TSPLPRD is a program available in QUSRTOOL since V4. That works great! No problems at all so far. Page range and everything. Now my question: If this user driver program TSPLPRD has been around since V4, why can't this be made into a true system print driver program that's part of OS/400? What I mean is, in addition to *IBMSNMPDRV, *IBMIPPDRV, *IBMPJLDRV, *HPPJLDRV, and whatever other ones are out there, couldn't they make TSPLPRD a system driver program that is used by entering *ASCIIDRV or *IBMASCIIDRV or whatever they want to call it? It seems simple enough to me, there must be something I don't get. And that wouldn't be the first time. -- Jeff Crosby Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc. P.O. Box 13369 Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369 260-422-7531 The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my company. Unless I say so.
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