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From: ISSKO@NUSVM.BITNET (Kace Ong)
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Subject: RE:OS/2 PC-IP AND RELATED QUESTIONS
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Date: 28 Apr 89 10:55:05 GMT
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{also in response to Bill and James of FTP}

Thanks for responding.  FTP apparently is very knowledgeable about
this field.  Both of you claim it is difficult to port PC-IP to OS/2,
but I do have one response from Harish Pillay (harish@ece.orst.edu)
who used to intern in Microsoft who claims that it is straight forward
porting.  Maybe Microsoft employee knows something that we don't
(if that is so, it doesn't surprise me :-)

To reiterate my project, I believe I can trap the print request easily.
Method :  All files have to be spooled to disk first, and by setting the
LPT to a custom device driver, I can detect the moment LANMAN tries to Open
the LPT device --- voila! that is the time the entire file has completed
spooling.  Now just invoke LPR with the filename.  And no SMB decoding
needed.

So the only snag is an OS/2 compatible LPR program.  That's all I need
really.  I'll go ahead and try to do a quick'n'dirty port of the pcip
package, and hopefully we'll be able to post some status soon.

Bill: I wonder if you can send me the NDIS stuffs you mentioned as I cannot
ftp.

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Kace Ong  Institute of Systems Science
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