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From: jeffr@bcs800.UUCP (Jeff Riegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: Need reference suggestions...
Keywords: remote printer, remote system, modem
Message-ID: <985@bcs800.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 90 19:02:20 GMT
References: <883@levelland.cs.utexas.edu>
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Organization: Brock Control Systems, Atlanta, Georgia
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In <883@levelland.cs.utexas.edu> tyen@cs.utexas.edu (caffeine_fiend) writes:


>I have a Motorola Unix box sitting in one office, with a couple of
>modem ports hanging off of it.  There is a terminal far, far away with
>a modem dangling from it.  Dial-up, play with Unix---no problem.
>However, I am stumped as to how to connect a printer at the remote
>terminal site, so that it appears as just another /dev, and behaves
>accordingly.

To create a remote printer do the following.

1. Create a printer using the same tty as the terminal...
	(eg.), lpadmin -v/dev/ttyxx -myyy -pzz
   where xx is the tty#, yyy is the model name, zz is the printer name

2. edit the interface file and add an echo statement before the print
   loop to set the escape codes to turn on the terminals transparent print
   mode on. (eg.) echo "\033\140\c" for a tvi905.

2. edit the interface file and add an echo statement after the print
   loop to set the escape codes to turn off the terminals transparent print
   mode. (eg.) echo "\033\141\c" for a tvi905.

NOTE: That will printing the remote terminal will be disabled.

EXAMPLE INTERFACE FILE:

stty -parenb 9600 ixon -ixany istrip

copies=$4
printer=`basename $0`

shift; shift; shift; shift; shift;
# TURN ON TRANSPARENT PRINT
echo "\033\140\c"

files="$*"
i=1
while [ $i -le $copies ]
do
	for file in $files
	do
		/bin/cat $file 2>&1
	done
	i=`expr $i + 1`
done
# TURN OFF TRANSPARENT PRINT
echo "\033\141\c"

Good Luck