RE: [LINUX5250] Printer Support

["Rosewood" <rosewood@xxxxxx>]

Thanks

Our system is limited in that only the first three printers will be
viewed on a network connection to our home office, thus we will only be
able to run one instance of the command you game me for everyone

Does that mean that all print outs are going to just spool to the one
big .pdf file or is it that after every print, the file get over-writen?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux5250-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:linux5250-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of James Rich
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 2:15 AM
> To: linux5250@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: [LINUX5250] Printer Support
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Rosewood wrote:
>
> > Can someone point me in the way of a HOWTO on how I can set up a
> > virtual printer, that the As400 would see as PRT03 (has to
> be PRT03)
> > and that when docs are printed to PRT03 it is spit out in some file
> > form, beit PS or PDF, etc??
>
> Try this:
>
>   lp5250d env.DEVNAME=PRT03 \
>   'outputcommand=scs2pdf /tmp/spoolfile$$.pdf' \
>   your.as400.com
>
> That's all one big command.  This will create a printer PRT03
> that will output PDFs in /tmp called spoolfile<PID>.pdf.
> <PID> will be the process ID of the particular instance of
> scs2pdf, so you've got a good chance of this being unique.
> The files will be owned by whoever started the above command,
> so you can use that to identify the user.
>
> As for the HOWTO, it's a work in progress (I've been working
> on it, just not very fast).  There is plenty of info
> available, just not necessarily in the form of a HOWTO.  The
> man page (man lp5250d and man tn5250) are particularly good
> sources of info.  The README included with the distribution
> also contains good stuff.
>
> James Rich
>
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