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From: peterh@ulrik.uio.no (Peter Hausken)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: wanted: printer redirector that works still under windows 3.0
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Date: 9 Jul 90 13:17:45 GMT
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>Subject: Re: wanted: printer redirector that works still under windows 3.0
>From: freiss@nixpbe.UUCP (the hacker)
>Path: ulrik!nuug!sunic!mcsun!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!spdcc!merk!alliant!linus!nixbur!nixpbe!peun33!freiss
>Reply-To: freiss@nixpbe.UUCP (the hacker)
>
>In <9007021931.aa07944@louie.udel.edu> NEUMANN%AWIWUW11@WUW.WU-Wien.AC.AT (Gustaf Neumann) writes:
>
>>Our problem:
>>   PC-NFS and MD-DOS (Univ. of Maryland TCP/IP) work as a charm as long
>>   MS Windows 3.0 is not involved. Both packages allow to assign the
>>   printerports of the PCs (eg lpt1) to eg Unix's lpd spool queues.
>>   Under Windows 3.0 the redirection of the printers ports is not
>>   recognized anymore (we found no setup such one could print under eg.
>>   MS-Word to lpt1).
>
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>
>My solution: print to file and choose the filename lpt?, with
>? being a number between 1 to 3 :-). DOS recognizes this as a device
>and routes the characters to be printed via Int 17 where a redirector
>can grab them.
>
>Rather a quick and dirty solution, but as far as I know the only
>way to do it.
>
A more 'clean' sollution is to use LPT1.OS2, LPT2.OS2 and LPT3.OS2
They seems to use the redirector. In PC-NFS you'll have to set the
PRT -T30 *   to make it print after 30 sec. and instead of 5 minutes.
In NFSCONF you use the "print after 5 minutes" option.