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From: dave@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU (Dave Camp)
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Subject: Re: Wollongong TCP/IP and Printer Sharing
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Date: 30 Nov 89 06:08:05 GMT
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>In article <464@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> jml@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Michael Lodman) writes:
>>of the things I would like to do is have the PCs share a
>>printer tied to a Unix host. 
>:
>>Does someone know how to accomplish this? Is there software,
>>commercial or otherwise to do this? Thanks!
>
>ISC(actually Locus) has a package known as PC-Interface.  It has a command,  
>PRINTER, that allows you to redirect output from DOS or applications
>to UNIX printers.
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I have hacked out a simple solution to this problem.  We do not use it
in production, so I do not know how it holds up.

We have NCSA_Telnet running on the PC's.  I have written a simple .bat
file that uses the ftp command to upload the text file to the Unix host.
Its destination filename is actually a named pipe.  This pipe is read by
the 'fileget' command, which I wrote, that issues a command for each
file it receives.  The command it issues is 'lpr' for this application.
One problem is fileget is running as root, so all of the printouts get
'root' on the banner page instead of the username.  One possible
solution is to prepare a secondary banner page on each user's PC and
prepend that to the file before uploading.

If anyone wants the source so that they can play with it, let me know.
-David-

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