Designating a printer on SCO 5.0.5

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Rodgers Hemer propounded (on Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 04:51:29PM -0700):
| 
| On Mar 23, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Fpmckinney at cs.com wrote:
| 
| > Bob Rasmussen is trying to help me get Printwiz working on my SCO
| > 5.0.5 system. He doesn't have access to a machine and nor that version
| > at the moment and he suggested that I pose the question to the fP  
| > list.
| > I want to designate an IP address 192.9.202.20 as printer. When I  
| > go to
| > SCO system administrator and click on printer>job>printer setup I only
| > see the name and command line for my dot matrix printer. I must be  
| > going
| > the wrong spot, but I can't figure out what the right one is. Can  
| > anyone help
| > on this spring afternoon, or is everybody at ease? TIA
| >
| > Frank Mc Kinney
| 
| If it is an HP network capable printer or can act as one, you need to  
| use the HP Network Printer Manager in the Printer folder.  Otherwise,  
| I believe you will need SCO drivers for the printer supplied by the  
| manufacturer.

Most SCO gurus find the HP Network Printing stuff a nasty mess, and
would encourage you to use netcat:
	http://www.tkrh.demon.co.uk/netcat.html

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JP
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