Rif: lp5250d as a windows service?

Paolo

Io uso lp5250d e sc2pdf con successo da una macchina linux (debian) e 
faccio mandare le stampe in mail o su file syste,
Ho fatto un becero script che mi gestisce la cosa.
Abbiamo 8 AS/400 sparpagliati in giro (anche remoti) e la cosa funziona 
molto bene.

Luca




Paolo Marchiori <paolo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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21/10/2004 20.29
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hello,
I'm totally new to the iSeries world. In fact, I'm more a Linux/AIX 
person,
but as unix and network administrator at $EMPLOYER I'm in charge of 
network
printers too, and trying to convert to IP all the existing ACS-connected 
printers I
started learning something about AS/400 :) and discovered tn5250, which I
find great, especially for lp5250d and scs2pdf, who is being greatly
appreciated by the users.

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.
2) any scs2pdf win32 binaries out there?
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)?

Thank you, bye.
-- 
pbm - "and a messy desk drawer full of broken strings
    -  you know those kids, and you know these things"
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