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From: hagan@DCCS.UPENN.EDU (John Dotts Hagan)
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Subject: Re: TCP-IP Print Spooler
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Date: 13 Jun 90 00:05:36 GMT
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Does anyone have a version of Transcript that uses IP/TCP to open a connection
to a postscript device and then do the print thing?

The problem with most of the other mentioned methods is that they are one way
connections - that is, the connection is opened and data is dumped from the
host to the printer.  Some (maybe all) of them can deal with flow control by
not acking TCP frames, or such, but all the methods seem to not be able to read
data from the printer.

Postscript printers like to talk back (error messages, other stuff?) that lets
you know what is going on.

Anyone changed all the open's in the transcript package to be network
connections?

--Kid.