Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc:3794 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:9533 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!mcnc!decvax.dec.com!bacchus.pa.dec.com!champlin From: champlin@decwrl.dec.com (Virgil Champlin) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: PC as printer server? Message-ID: Date: 20 Sep 90 16:40:19 GMT References: <9009192107.aa06503@louie.udel.edu> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Organization: DEC Network Systems Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: BHOLMES@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU's message of 20 Sep 90 01:02:16 GMT I would like to do the opposite. Send a file from a pc to a Unix box for printing using "lpd". There is just such a creature with the PCIP implementation from Clarkson called LPR and although I haven't used it yet, it looks mostly like what I want. I say "mostly" because there are still many dos programs that insist upon using the printer port directly with no chance to redirect to a file. If they do let you output to a file, it produces a "sanitized" version that doesn't take advantage of the printer type that you know you will eventually use. What I seem to need is a tsr that will redirect to a file that I can then use LPR on. Any suggestions are welcome and since I know so little about dos, source code would be really appreciated. Thanks, -virgil -- Virgil Champlin champlin@nsl.dec.com Palo Alto, CA "I got it, I got it, I ain't got it."