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From: Carpenter@Fwva.Saic.Com (Apprentice Wizard Wannabe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Shared Printers
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Date: 22 May 91 14:04:29 GMT
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murray@motto.UUCP (Murray S. Kucherawy) writes:
>I seem to recall a thread about this recently, but I've just been informed
>that we are now interested in doing this, and the thread's expired here,
>so forgive me for asking again.
>
>Is it possible for VAXen (some VMS, some Ultrix) to share printers,
>other than using a DECserver to drive them?
>
>=============================== Murray S. Kucherawy ==========================
>Motorola Canada, Ltd.     Communications Division, Toronto      [on work term]
>University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada               2B Math/Computer Science
>Internet: murray@motto.UUCP (work)       mskucherawy@watmath.UWaterloo.ca (UW) 
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   For VMS, set up a que on the node the printer is connected to. Then create a
generic on each node in the cluster. (only works ina cluster)
eg.
$ DEFINE SYMBOLS FOR TERMQUE_NAME AND USE LEXICAL FOR NODENAME HERE
$  Initialize /Queue /Start /Default=(Flag,NoBurst) -
	/On=NODE::'TermQue_Name' 'TermQue_Name'
$!          ^^^^ The node the printer is connected to
$  Initialize /Queue /Start /Generic='TermQue_Name' Sys$Print
$!  Define /System  Sys$Print 'NodeName'$Print
 
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