Re: TCP/IP Printing

[Peter Coffin <phcoffin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Kirk writes:

> 2. Is there an AIX cmd/parm when using LPR to convert the data as it is sent
> to the 400?

Yes.  From the TCP/IP Confg & Reference:

  #!/bin/csh -f
  #-
  # Convert ASCII file to EBCDIC and send it to AS/400
  # to be received as *SCS file
  # the AS/400, it is required that the "working" LPD
  # PRTF located in QUSRSYS be changed with the following
  # command:
  #
  #    CHGPRTF FILE(QUSRSYS/QPTMPLPD) DEVTYPE(*SCS)
  #
  # When you are finished, restore the original settings
  # with:
  #
  #    CHGPRTF FILE(QUSRSYS/QPTMPLPD) DEVTYPE(*USERASCII)
  #
  # Caveats:
  #
  #  - Square brackets will not convert properly.  Other
  #    special characters may not convert properly.
  #
  #  - If you customize the QUSRSYS/QPTMPLPD, you will
  #    affect all users of LPD services who may not want
  #    *SCS files.
  #
  #  - It is strongly recommended that QTCP/QPTMPLPD be
  #    left alone.  This is the working installation
  #    default version.   Copy or customize it to another
  #    library that will be found ahead of QTCP.
  #
  #  - If you erase the copy of QPTMPLPD in QUSRSYS, your
  #    *LIBL is searched, and if no QPTMPLPD is found, the
  #    version in QTCP is used.  Therefore, you may copy
  #    the QPTMPLPD printer file to a private library in
  #    your *USRLIBL or *CURLIB and change it to be *SCS
  #    without affecting other users, provided your copy
  #    is found ahead of any other versions (namely, the
  #    one in QTCP).
  #-------------------------------------------------------
  set nm=$0
  if ("$1" == "-h" || "$1" == "") then
  echo " "
  echo "Usage:" "$nm:t" "^-h* file(s)"
  echo " "
  echo "Will convert file to EBCDIC and LPR to AS/400 printer queue"
  echo "using the following string:"
  echo " "
  echo "    dd conv=ebcdic cbs=132 < $* | lpr -P as400 -l"
  echo " "
  exit
  endif

  echo "dd conv=ebcdic cbs=132 < $* | lpr -P as400 -l"
  dd conv=ebcdic cbs=132 < $* | lpr -P as400 -l

  exit;

Warn the AIX people about the square bracket issue. It'll make their
reading the source code for their C array processing a little hard to
read.


Peter H. Coffin
phcoffin@us.ibm.com
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