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  3. October 2004

Re: lp5250d as a windows service?

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Paolo Marchiori wrote:

Coming to the real questions:
1) is there a way to install lp5250d as a NT/2000 service? in the remote
  site where most iSeries users reside there's only a w2k server, and is
  lp5250d could be installed as a service it would be the ultimate solution
  to print PDF files. I think slight modifications are needed (suppress the
  GUI, providing a default configuration file and default outfile repository).
  I know just the guidelines a .exe must follow to qualify as a possible
  service, and I'm not a w32 programmer, so I don't know if this is
  feasible nor how to do it.

I know nothing about windows, but when you say, "suppress the GUI" what GUI are you talking about? lp5250d doesn't have a GUI.

2) any scs2pdf win32 binaries out there?

scs2pdf should compile if you have a unix environment for windows. I think cygwin provides this. The reason this is needed is that lp5250d uses a pipe to send the data to scs2pdf (at least I think this is how it works - maybe Scott did something special for windows?).

3) paper length in scs2pdf is fixed - does it make sense to provide a way
  to change it? and a way to fix width too, or to switch between different
  fixed formats depending on the number of columns (instead of enlarging
  by steps the width like it's done currently, if I have read correctly
  the code)? And what about changing the character width?
  I can patch the program myself, but if it's already been
  done, it's unuseful to reinvent the wheel...
4) Am I wrong or in scs2pdf CRs don't do what they should (that is:
  carriage return and then writing OVER the previous line)?

The paper size is chosen based on a best guess. The AS/400 sometimes sends the paper size to us and sometimes doesn't. So scs2pdf tries to guess what is best. Maybe some option to force a certain size is a good idea.

As for CRs I believe scs2pdf is behaving the way it should. But, it has been a long time since I worked on scs2pdf and I know there are bugs. A CR doesn't necessarily mean "go to the next line", it simply means "go to the left edge of the page". If you have a case where scs2pdf does the wrong thing let me know.

James Rich

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