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From: fks@FTP.COM (Frances Selkirk)
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Subject: Re: PC as printer server?
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Date: 21 Sep 90 16:03:20 GMT
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What you want is a print redirector. A print redirector catches bits
bound for the printer (by intercepting at interrupt 17), saves them to
a temporary file, and shoots them off to a network printer. Sun
Microsystems has a print redirector as a standard part of their PC-NFS
product, and we (FTP Software) have recently added one to our PC/TCP.
Those are the only commercial print redirectors I am aware of, but
there are probably public domain ones also. The file created (in our
package; not sure of others) is not preserved, but if what you want in
'taking advantage of the printer type,' is to preserve configuration
done by the DOS application, a print redirector will do that for you.
Print redirectors vary in what print programs they use, but ours, at
least, has lpr as an option.


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