Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pacbell!pbseps!perl
From: perl@pbseps.UUCP (Richard Perlman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PC-NFS & HP Laserjet
Keywords: PC-NFS, HP Laserjet
Message-ID: <652@pbseps.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 89 23:48:57 GMT
References: <7612@bunny.GTE.COM> <900@east.East.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: perl@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman)
Organization: Pacific Bell Separations, San Francisco, CA
Lines: 34

In article <900@east.East.Sun.COM> geoff@East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) writes:
>In article <7612@bunny.GTE.COM> hhg1@GTE.COM (Hallett German) writes:
>>Is there a way to have an HP Laserjet as a shared printer...
>>...from any PC with PC-NFS active?
 
>We've done it with a Sun server, without any problems...
 
>>If yes, is it possible to download fonts as well.
 
>I believe so, but I'd trust end-user experience over a vendor's
>assertion any day!

We use LaserJets and PostScript printers as shared printers for our
PC-NFS users.  For the LaserJet to use downloadable fonts you must set
the tty port on you print server (i.e. your UNIX/NFS box) to pass 8
bits, this generaly means raw mode & hardware handshaking, but some
systems, SYS V I think, will let you use "stty pass8").  With the
PostScript printers our "lp" interface script determines if the
incomming file is already PostScript or plain text.  PostScript gets
sent straight along while text goes through a filter to convert it to
PostScript first.

Other than the pain imposed by DOS of having to signal end-of-print
(PC_NFS gives three options: HOT-KEY, Time-Out or Quit-the-Program) it
works well.  We print from WordStar, Lotus, Word Perfect, Symphony and
other application programs without problems.  (Well, that's not
completely true: we use the HOT-KET (Alt-P) to signal end-of-print, and
most software we use seems to buffer the keyboard, so we usualy have to
"threaten" to "escape to DOS" to get the application to let go of the
keypress.)

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