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From: dmccart@cadedn.intel.com (D. J. McCarthy ~)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: TranScript/Ethernet filter incompatibility
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Date: 12 May 89 00:25:51 GMT
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	We have (or soon will have) a bunch of PostScript printers hooked up
to an Ethernet adapter (a Network Printer Controller from Xyplex).  We also
have a copy of TranScript 2.1.  The NPC is on the same network as a bunch of
VMS and Unix boxes.  Basically all I'm worried about is printing from Unix
over the net through the NPC to the printers.

	The NPC has its own filter script that is in the 'of' position in
/etc/printcap.  It also adds two more entries in printcap that set the
Ethernet address of the NPC and the port number off the NPC that the printer
is connected to.

	TranScript, as far as I can tell, wants to bind a printer to a
specific serial port off the Unix box it's attached to.  Pscomm, from the
documentation, sends straight to a serial port.  I want it to go through
pscomm, then have it go through the NPC filter, *then* go to the serial port
that's the Ethernet's attached to.

	In short, how can I get pscomm to send its output to a file instead
of to a port?  I know this is more a Unix question than a PostScript question,
but I'm hoping Glenn Reid will have some idea of what to do!

	Thanks -
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D. J. McCarthy
dmccart@cadev4.intel.com