Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!ucbvax!BRL.MIL!tcs
From: tcs@BRL.MIL (Terry Slattery, SECAD)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  sockets vs. streams
Message-ID: <9009071214.aa04705@SPARK.BRL.MIL>
Date: 7 Sep 90 16:14:35 GMT
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> This would be nice.  A possible solution is to write a program "netsend":
>      
>      cat somefile | netsend tcp:x.x.x.x-y.y
> 
> Since printcap allows sending to a filter rather than a specific
> device, the solution is general enough.

But it won't work for a postscript printer being driven from the
Transcript software.  Transcript wants to talk to the printer to
get status info, so the link needs to be bi-directional.

What you suggest has been done by cisco for their terminal servers
and is available from ftp.cisco.com:tcpf.c.

	-tcs