RE: TN5250E Printer Support

[Jack Porter <jporter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

"3812" is just a well-known (to the Telnet server) printer model; its 
negotiation in Telnet does not imply whether ASCII or EBCDIC data will be sent 
to the "printer" client.
Have a look at "AS/400 Telnet Server TN5250E Draft RFC" (web link below).  Page 
16 specifies the environment variable "IBMTRANSFORM", which controls whether 
transformed data is sent to the "printer" TN5250E client.  Your client software 
will most likely have a check box labeled "Host Print Transform" (or something 
to that effect) which controls whether "IBMTRANSFORM" is negotiated on or off 
with the server.

http://www.ietf.org/ids.by.wg/tn3270e.html

Look for the draft titled "5250 Telnet Enhancements",
by Thomas Murphy, Paul Rieth, Jeffrey Stevens.

Jack Porter

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From:  SBireley@renex.com [SMTP:SBireley@renex.com]
Sent:  Wednesday, November 11, 1998 9:44 AM
To:  midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject:  TN5250E Printer Support

     Is it possible to send and SCS printer stream using a TN5250E attached 
     printer?  The only printer types available for TN5250E are 3812 and 
     5553 (DBCS printer). The docs we have on the these printer show them 
     to be ASCII printers only.
     
     Does anyone use the Transform option to print over TN5250E.
     
     Thanks,
     
     Steve Bireley

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