Re: Should be QSH ... RE: qsy question

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Hatzenbeler, Tim wrote:

> > On my pc, I can copy a pdf file to a connected printer, and the printer
> > can
> > print it, if the printer can handle the ps language..
> > But, can I do the same thing within QSH?
> >
> > ***
> >
> > I have a printerdevice configued called 'SUPPORT'
> > and I would like to copy the PDF, to that printer...  Is this possible?
> >
> > copy file.pdf to \\SUPPORT  or something similar.

It seems like this should be possible, but so far I haven't found a quick
way to do it.  On a real unix system you would be able to do:

lpr file.pdf

or

cat file.pdf > /dev/lp0

However neither of these work on the iSeries.  The problem as I see it is
that the iSeries doesn't put devices on the filesystem, so filesystem
commands (such as copy, move, redirection) don't work with devices.  It
seems quite reasonable to mount a windows shared printer somewhere on the
filesystem using NetServer, though.  Then what you describe should work
fine.

James Rich

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