Re: Downloading Print Spool files with CA/95

Booth

At 11:45 AM 11/14/97 -0500, you wrote:
>on 11/13/97at 11:01 PM, the Great and Grand  Wazir peteh@earth.inwave.com
>(Pete Hall) said:
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No, unfortunately. At least with CA, and a telnet connection, you can't
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define a printer session. Rats!!!
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Pete
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>Pete, have you used TN5250 yet?  I ask because I would think that LPR and
>LPD might have an answer to the printing problem over tcp/ip.  From what I
>am hearing it would seem that a printer definition correctly set on an
>AS/400 could send exactly the right stuff to a PC printer on the TN5250
>connection?

I assume you're talking about PC5250, right?

Over TCP/IP, PC5250 uses the telnet port. lpd/lpr use a different port. The
physical connection is there, but in order to have the 400 print to a
PC-attached printer, there has to be an LPD server on the PC. We're using
Remote Print Manager (RPM) from Brooks <http://www.brooksnet.com>.

So, it's not exactly the same as a printer session in old-time PCS. But I
believe this will be possible in the next release of CA. Maybe CA will
include an LPD server?

BTW, AS/400 printers visible to a Win95 box can be set up with queues
inside RPM. So, even if your 400 is not on TCP/IP, say, other IP-configured
machines could print on AS/400 via the LPD server on the PC! How many knots
can you untie?

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480


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