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From: U0A61@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU ("Bryan, Jerry")
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Subject: Spooled LPR/LPQ Support
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Date: 9 Jun 90 00:40:49 GMT
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I think this has been asked before, with the response negative, but
I thought I would try again anyway.

We have various machines including mainframes and PC's on a TCP/IP
Ethernet.  We don't have Novell's or 3Com's or anybody else's
networking software between the PC's, just implementations of
TCP/IP on the PC's.  We have LPR and LPQ support on the PC's.  We
don't have an LPD server on the network, but we could make one
fairly easily.  However, even if we did, we could not print from the
PC's to the LPD server in the manner in which we would like.

Let me explain what I mean.  Many of the PC's are running either
spreadsheet software or word processing software.  If I understand
LPR/LPQ correctly, they would be DOS commands issued at the DOS
prompt on the PC's.  They could be used to print a file from the PC.
What we want instead is to somehow or other remain in the spreadsheet
program or the word processing program, have the programs print
as if they were printing to a printer attached to the PC, but have
the printed output go to the LPD server.

I am not hung up on this being necessarily the LPR/LPQ client and
the LPD client,  so something else might do as well.  However, the
users have to be able to stay in their spreadsheet or word processor
rather making an ASCII file, then exiting to print it.  Most of the
PC's are DOS, but we are beginning to migrate some of the to OS/2.

Thanks in advance for any assistance or advice.