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From: mike@socrates.umd.edu (mike santangelo (UNIX/VMS Sys Staff))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP3000/935 MPE/XL TCP/IP rlp
Message-ID: <1991May31.205113.2703@socrates.umd.edu>
Date: 31 May 91 20:51:13 GMT
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pwb@newt.phys.unsw.OZ.AU.unsw.oz (Paul W. Brooks) writes:

>I have been given the job of helping to sort out two HP machines:
>One, a HP3000/935 running MPE/XL, and the other a HPUX system (can't
>remember the model number). I am not a HP-savvy guy. Both machines have
>TCP/IP installed to run over thin ethernet. They want the MPE/XL node
>to spool print files to the HP-UX box. Currently they go the other way,
>as HP have told the it is not possible to send print jobs from MPE to
>UNIX. Is this true?  Do the TCP/IP implementations for both machines
>have support for rlp? (If so, why can't MPE spool to HPUX?)

MPE does support TCP/IP through its NS/3000 software.  However, that
does not mean that the upper-level (application layer) is BSD, it
is not.  NS/3000 supports a number of HP proprietary protocols,
VT for virtual terminal (in place of TELNET), RFT for remote file
transfer (in place of FTP), and for mail there is HPDesk (in place of
SMTP) if you have HPDesk.  The only network spooling packages I am aware
of for the HP3000 are from Holland House, I do not know if they now
allow communication with HP9000s, may wish to ask them.  However, HP9000s
will talk NS (if you buy it for them) so you could make a crude transport
for print files by using DSCOPY (HP's RFT application).  If not that,
it should be possible to create an lpr client on MPE XL using NS's IPC
calls (which are socket based).  NS's IPC is at least well documented
(provided you have the manuals and don't mind a little programming).


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                                  Mike Santangelo (mike@socrates.umd.edu)
                                  UNIX / VMS Systems Manager