Re: Help with TN5250 Printing -- LINUX5250

Thanks Again Mike:

I got a your link, downloaded the new, followed your steps to the letter,
re. the ./configure, make, and make install.   I then proceeded with the
sample command line you gave me with the following results.

The session went active, the saved spool file I did an option 6 'send', the
writer went active.   However nothing came to the printer.  I experienmented
with the combinations shown in the man lp5250d, for example it showed single
tics, instead of the " tics you showed.   I tried the -T '*HP4' to turn on
host print transform, which it did on the '400 side, I tried it without
the -T '*HP4' and using the scs2ascii parameter.

The only one thing in question is that I did not remove the previous version
first, primarily because I did not know how without a manual delete via
'rm'.

If you have any further ideas please advise, also I've rebooted the Linux
box, powered off and on the printer so that's not an issue.

the connection is there, else I wouldn't be online and active status, the
send works, else the writer wouldn't be active, but something just is not
pushing the job to the printer thru the open connection.

It's hell to be so close and yet so far.

Thanks


Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Madore <mmadore@mail.turbolinux.com>
To: <LINUX5250@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: Help with TN5250 Printing


> Hi,
>
> Did you install from the source distribution, or from a precompiled
> package?  I would download the latest version which is available for
> download at:
>
> ftp://cvs.cleveland.lug.net/pub/tn5250/tn5250-0.15.8.tar.gz
>
> Do a ./configure, make, make install and you should be all set.  Let me
> know if you have any problems.
>
> Mike
>
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Mike wrote:
>
> > Hi Mike:
> >
> > Thanks for the responses all, however  I DO NOT seem to have the lp5250d
> > command.....anywhere on my system....
> >
> > i've done
> > find . -name lp52* -print
> >
> > from the highest level in on the drive.     What gives with that
situation?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Mike Madore <mmadore@mail.turbolinux.com>
> > To: <LINUX5250@midrange.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 2:21 PM
> > Subject: Re: Help with TN5250 Printing
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Lowercase t is for a trace file.  I noticed that I gave you a little
bit
> > > of incorrect information.  The printer manufacturer needs to be
specified
> > > with an asterisk in front of it.  Here is the command line:
> > >
> > > lp5250d -s linuxopt2 -T "*HP4" -P "scs2ascii | lpr -Plinuxoptra"
10.2.0.26
> > >
> > > Let me know if you have any other trouble.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Mike wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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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