Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!paul.rutgers.edu!njin!aporter From: aporter@pilot.njin.net (Al Porter) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Printing with PC/TCP Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 91 15:16:02 GMT Organization: NJ InterCampus Network, New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 26 I'm using ftp's PC/TCP version 2.05. Is there a way to make PC/TCP and/or Interdrive talk directly to a network printer as in PC-NFS? lpr works just fine, but I want to set up applications for users (i.e. Microsoft Word, Lotus) to print directly to network PostScript printers instead of printing to a file, shelling out or exiting the program, and using lpr. ftp sent me a fax describing a "hack" to accomplish this, but I couldn't get it to work. Please help! I want our site to switch to this TCP/IP package from PC-NFS, but this is a necessary feature. (Of course, it would also be nice if InterDrive was incorporated into the kernel or they at least found a way to use less memory for InterDrive. This is another advantage PC-NFS still holds.) (Please don't respond to this borrowed account.) -Adam (adam@research.nj.nec.com) ===================================================================== Adam Porter:Assistant SysAdmin, NEC Research Institute (609) 951-2568 4 Independence Way Princeton,NJ 08540 adam@research.nj.nec.com