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Thanks for trying...  As for mounting the windows printer, I have not had
much luck doing that... is there good google keyword I should use?

Thanks, tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [SMTP:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Rich
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 3:11 PM
> To:   Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject:      Re: Should be QSH  ... RE: qsy question
> 
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Hatzenbeler, Tim wrote:
> 
> > > On my pc, I can copy a pdf file to a connected printer, and the
> printer
> > > can
> > > print it, if the printer can handle the ps language..
> > > But, can I do the same thing within QSH?
> > >
> > > ***
> > >
> > > I have a printerdevice configued called 'SUPPORT'
> > > and I would like to copy the PDF, to that printer...  Is this
> possible?
> > >
> > > copy file.pdf to \\SUPPORT  or something similar.
> 
> It seems like this should be possible, but so far I haven't found a quick
> way to do it.  On a real unix system you would be able to do:
> 
> lpr file.pdf
> 
> or
> 
> cat file.pdf > /dev/lp0
> 
> However neither of these work on the iSeries.  The problem as I see it is
> that the iSeries doesn't put devices on the filesystem, so filesystem
> commands (such as copy, move, redirection) don't work with devices.  It
> seems quite reasonable to mount a windows shared printer somewhere on the
> filesystem using NetServer, though.  Then what you describe should work
> fine.
> 
> James Rich
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