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From: wescott@Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Tower Multiplan 32
Message-ID: <2015@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 26 Feb 90 18:17:38 GMT
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In article <182@fdls.UUCP> dougw@fdls.UUCP (Doug Walker) writes:
> We also use NCR 4940 terminals and have auxilliary printers attached to
> several of them.  To send output to an attached auxilliary printer, we have
> been using the following auxptr shell script:

>     trap 'echo "^T"' 0 1 2 3 15
>     echo "^X"       # Turns on transparent mode of NCR 4940 auxilliary port
>     cat $@
>     echo "^T"       # Turns off transparent mode of NCR 4940 auxilliary port

The question is, does multiplan invoke its printer and pass data via a pipe
or does it write a temporary file and pass the file name to the printer
spooler.  If it uses a pipe $@ may not contain a file name.

--
	-Mike Wescott
	 mike.wescott@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM