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From: jabusch@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Jabusch)
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Subject: Re: PCPRINT with Banyan
Keywords: Printing from PC to UNIX host.
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Date: 30 Jan 91 19:19:48 GMT
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frush@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Raymond Frush) writes:


>Hello-
>	Just the other day, I spotted a message from someone about using a 
>    SUN station as a printer for BANYAN VINES.  The configuration was like
>    this:  A PeeCee is running PCPRINT to act as a remote network printer.
>    The PeeCee is connected to a UNIX (Sun) box which listens to the PeeCee's
>    COM port, and then takes the output and sends it to a printer (I assume
>    via lpr/lpd).  This message expired on our system here and I didn't save
>    the original (obviously).  If you recognize the information, please send
>    information, I am interested in exploring this option for our network.

I posted a note on this, although we're not using the pc.  I've hooked up
a direct asynch server-to-Sun line.  It would be just the same, though,
using a pc and PCPRINT.  We have some code (unsupported, though) which
you are welcome to try if you are interested.  The code runs on the Sun
to make it take print jobs from the Banyan side and mix them into the 
lp queue, even getting Banyan user id's from the header information.

john jabusch

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