RE: Generic text printer

Justin, 

Try this - it's based on how some other manufacturers of nonstandard print
equipment have worked.  The sys driver program not sure of, but the key is
HPT, *WSCSTNONE and the QWPDEFAULT
 
CRTDEVPRT DEVD(XXXXXX) DEVCLS(*LAN) TYPE(3812) MODEL(1) LANATTACH(*IP) AF 
P(*N) PORT(xxxx) FONT(11) FORMFEED(*AUTOCUT) PARITY(*NONE) STOPBITS(1) TR 
ANSFORM(*YES) MFRTYPMDL(*WSCSTNONE) RMTLOCNAME('192.168.xxx.xxx') SYSDRVP 
GM(*IBMPJLDRV) WSCST(QSYS/QWPDEFAULT)                                     

The Mapica web brochure describes this as a XON, XOFF device, and also
mentions a Win software piece.  If above does not work, I would try a PC5250
print session, and use same key parms above. 

It's a shot..
Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Justin Taylor
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 3:07 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Generic text printer

PING from the POWER7 shows 100% success with 0 milliseconds.

TELNET doesn't connect or error out.  It just sits there with a status of
"Waiting for select".

I didn't see anything in that link.  A subsequent suggestion was to try a
*WSCST of QWPDEFAULT which was mentioned in the article but was Greek to me.
I'm going to try that and see what happens.



-----Original Message-----
From: CRPence [mailto:crpbottle@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 12:56 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Generic text printer

On 14-May-2015 09:26 -0500, Justin Taylor wrote:
> How do I PING and TELNET using a specific port?

   The PING was not mentioned to test the port, but to test that the request
could get through the route to the destination and that packets were
consistently reaching their destination [minimal loss], and how timely [huge
lag could be problematic for timeouts].

>
> I just posted the device description in another message.
>

   And from that, with the IBM i TELNET client [I am too lazy to look up how
using the system-supplied TELNET on any other clients; I do not recall in
Win nor typical *nix, but "telnet ?" on this Mac says: "usage: 
telnet [-l user] [-a] [-s src_addr] host-name [port]"], try the following:

    ? STRTCPTELN RMTSYS(*INETADR) ??INTNETADR('192.168.150.107')
           ??PORT(1041)

   Optionally also review and code what seems appropriate for any "ASCII"
parameters presented after F10=Additional Parameters.

>
> In my mind, the big question is how to emulate the "Generic / Text 
> Only" print driver that Window uses?
>

   That was what the article at the link was supposed to help with.

--
Regards, Chuck


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