Thanks to everyone who answered my question.
My problem was defining a Telnet printer on DECservers 90M and 90TL. I got
many answers, the one that is close to the solution of my problem is that of
changing the lpd of DEC and using a different lpd. I didn't go for that
solution anyway as I have tried before a sample spooler DS7spool.c program
that comes as a sample program with the S/W of the DS90/DS700 servers. It
worked for the DS700 as well as for the 90s.
The answers I got are :
[1]
>We use 90TL's and were also not able to get DEC's lpd to work like we wanted.
>What we ultimately did was junk DEC's lpd entirely and start from scratch with
>the BSD lpd (downloaded from gatekeeper.dec.com). I should warn you that this
>was Ultrix rather than OSF/Digital Unix. You're welcome to the source if
>you want it. (It isn't the prettiest port in the world; I needed to use the
>90TL's imediately.) The nice thing about it is that now any machine (Sun,
>Linux, SGI) can run this LPD and print to the 90TL so we don't depend on the
>VAX (for this anyway).
>
>For what it's worth, if I had to do it over again, I'd leave lpd alone (or
>just get BSD's and trash DEC's) and implement things through a pair of
>filters (if/of). Of course, since it is working fine and the work's been done,
>we aren't about to tackle that.
>
> Sean
>
>>swatson_at_ultrix6.cs.csubak.edu
[2]
>Do yoy still have the entry in /etc/services
>printer 515/tcp spooler
>??
>If so, I guess lpd will work on port 515...
>
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[3]
>Regards,
>
>I think that if the terminalserver is not running lpd you're lost unless you
>could setup the Alpha/terminalserver to communicate over LAT.
>Your printcap entry should then be something like (if using lpd)
>
> lp1|dutprint:\
> :lp=:\
> :rm=terminalservernameoraddress:\
> :rq=hoftm18:\
> :sd=/usr/spool/lpd1:
>
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[4]
>Maybe you should try this:
>
> lp1|dutprint:\
> :lf=/usr/adm/dutprint.errs:\
> Has to be empty ------------> :lp=:\
> :rm=hoftm1:\
> :rp=hoftm18:\
> :sd=/usr/spool/lpd1:
>
>rm = Remote-Host
>rp = Remote-Printer
>
>
>
>Then you have to create a file named /etc/hosts.lpd and add there your
>Remote-Host or Hosts, if there are more then one.
>
>
>Greetings from Switzerland
>
>Marco Albani
>Albani_at_mail1.afibs.ch (Albani)
Received on Sun Nov 05 1995 - 21:10:34 NZDT