Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!gargoyle!att!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Printing with Western Digital's ViaNet
Message-ID: <6093@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 25 Jul 88 14:28:18 GMT
References: <1908@cosmo.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <1908@cosmo.UUCP> mathmyka@cosmo.UUCP (Mathias Myka) writes:
>I am using a small StarLAN network with Western Digital's
>ViaNet operating system. When using the print redirection feature
 >of this system, all data that is to be printed, is buffered until
 >either the program that causes the print output is terminated,
 >or the user presses they CTRL-ALT-PrtSc keys. I would like to
 >start printing automatically while the application program is still
 >running. I suppose that I have to include an interrupt into the
 >program, but this is not documented in the WD manuals.
 >Can anyone out there help me ?

I'm not sure about ViaNet, but with AT&T's starlan network, closing the
printer device will flush the output and start the spooled job.  Either
closing and re-opening the device you are using or duping the filehandle
and closing one copy should work.  In Basic, you would probably have to
specifically open an lpt?: device yourself so you can control the closing
instead of using lprint.
 
 Les Mikesell