Print to printer on a different SCO Unix system
Robert T. Repko (R Squared Consultants)
rtr at rsquared.com
Tue Feb 2 03:41:48 PST 2010
Believe it or not at 2/1/2010 04:14 PM, Jean-Pierre A. Radley said:
>Robert T. Repko (R Squared Consultants) propounded (on Sat, Jan 30,
>2010 at 09:36:25AM -0500):
>| This is more of a Unix question than filepro question but since I am
>| trying to do this from filepro I'll ask here.
>|
>| I have filepro running on SCO OSR5 5.0.7. I have a second SCO Unix
>| system running on a different network, connected by GB fiber
>| optic. I need to print from filepro to a printer on the second SCO
>| system. Can someone tell me what needs to be setup to allow me to
>| print to a printer on the second system, or point me in the right direction.
>
>As Bill suggests, lpr is the common way to do this.
>
>Run 'mkdev rlp', then 'scoadmin printer' and "follow the bouincing ball".
>
>--
>JP
Thanks JP for pointing me in the right direction. I expected that it
would have already been installed. Since I never worked with remote
printing before I didn't realize that I had to run mkdev.
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