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From: Tony_Sweeney@artificial-intelligence.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: Communicating Lisp & Viewpoint 1186s
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Date: 21 Jul 89 15:13:00 GMT
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	All things are possible:
"1- How to communicate via Ethernet a Lisp 1186 and a Viewpoint 1186 ?"
There is software called Dashlink which runs as a Viewpoint application,

allowing the Viewpoint workstation to act as a Clearinghouse and Print service.

We have used this succesfully. It is sold in this country by Rank Xerox,
but
with little enthusiasm (cause they sell fewer printservers), but we do have
one
customer who uses this. Try and get Xerox Spain to sell you it.

"2- How to communicate via Ethernet a Unix machine with a Viewoint 1186 ?"
This one is impossible to do directly, but... what we do is use the TCP library

software on the lisp machine to run a TCPFTP server process. Write a shell

script that puts files from Unix to a spool directory on the lisp machine.
Write
some lisp code that periodically looks in this directory and transfers them
to the
Dashlink workstation either for filing or printing. We use this mechanism
to do
all printing from our inhouse Unix machines to a 8000 printserver, but it
should
work equally well with Dashlink. If Xerox Spain can't or won't sell you
Dashlink, then I'm afraid "3- It is impossible".

Tony Sweeney
Technical Support
A I Limited.