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From: bv@wjv.comREMOVE (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: Telnet printing Message-ID: <Hs8IJ3.y58@wjv.com> References: <LNWdnfBPhsoFm4XdRVn-sA@thebiz.net> <60bd4c6b.0401281651.7c32ea18@posting.google.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 04:55:01 GMT

In article <60bd4c6b.0401281651.7c32ea18@posting.google.com>,
Brian K. White <brian@aljex.com> wrote:
>"Robert Bachellor" <rob@alphaomegas.com> wrote in message news:<LNWdnfBPhsoFm4XdRVn-sA@thebiz.net>...
>> We have a remote client using DSL with dynamic IP addressing to telnet back
>> into the SCO OS5 server.  He is using ICE.TCP Pro which comes with an LPD
>> program for Windows.  My problem is how to define a printer on the server so
>> that his reports go to his LPD interface so he can print them.
>> 
>> Any help is greatly appreciated.

>I would use passthru-printing before I got entangled in defining a
>bunch of lpd printers to non-static ip's. You don't have to configure
>printers into the spooler for that, and you don't care the slightest
>little bit about what the users IP is, if it was different 10 minutes
>ago, or how they are connecting to the box (serial dialup, telnet,
>ssh, facetwin, local lan, internet etc...), or how they are connecting
>to the internet (direct dialup, behind a firewall, port-forwarding,
>nat, etc...)

>But, passthru has it's own few issues. You can't just define a virtual
>printer that sends the data back to your tty because applications
>typically run a print job in the background and proceed to write to
>the screen as normal immediately. With passthru, you send an escape
>code to the terminal and some print data and another escape code.

I'd suggest looking at anzio-lite and anzio as they handle
pass-thru printing wonderfully well.   www.anzio.com   
Pretty darned cheap, though it has been upped to $40 from the $25
price it had for years.   And his tools perform other 'magic'
things for printing too.

My SCO clients prefered it to other and often more expensive
spreads.

Bill

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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