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From: gentry@kcdev.UUCP (Art Gentry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: IBM to HP150 to Thinkjet ?
Summary: this will work (klugy tho...)
Message-ID: <755@kcdev.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 89 14:01:31 GMT
References: <14500002@silver>
Organization: AT&T Kansas City, MO.
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In article <14500002@silver>, pownell@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes:
> 
> 
> I have an IBM serially attached to my HP150. I would like to be able to
> print from the IBM on the Thinkjet attached to the HP via the HPIB.
> 
> I was curious if anyone had tryed this?  If someone might know of
> a utility program to make this possible?  Or if I should just forget
> the idea, I have limited experiance with this HP and any comments
> would be appreciated.
> 
I am not aware of any utilities to do this transparently, but I have an 
identical setup and use the following routine:

1) xfer file from IBM to HP via AdvanceLink[tm]

2) use DOS 'print' to dump the file to the ThinkJet[tm]

I admit this is klugy, but does work well.

Art


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