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From: chris@SALT.ACC.COM (Chris VandenBerg)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: printing on the network from VMS
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Date: 22 Dec 89 18:02:07 GMT
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Merry Christmas to everyone,
				 I'm in the process of working on a distributed
print application using WIN/TCP to distribute some print capabilities out
to 3COM/Bridge terminal servers. I'm having a bit of trouble with the VMS side
of things and was hoping someone io the world has done something similar. here'sthe proposed scene:
	A user logged onto the VAX through a 3COM term server connects to the
the Wollongong TELNET server, then connecting to some application running
under VMS. There is a "network" printer on a slave port on the 3COM that is
used by the VAX. This is connected via use of TWG's 3COM print symbiont that
looks like a logical VMS printer(I guess). The problem is how can I get the
system to recognize when the Terminal user hits a "print screen" key and 
redirect the output to the network printer? I would think that some DCL could
be written to tell the terminal driver that a special key had been hit,
throw the screen buffer into a file, and then send it to the print symbiont,
but has anyone actually DONE something like this? (Re-inventing the wheel
has never been one of my goals in life (:*) ).
		I would greatly appreciate any comments/guidance that anyone
would care to share.
		THanks in advance,
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