Re: Help with TN5250 Printing

["Mike" <mcravens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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