Print to printer on a different SCO Unix system

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010, Robert T. Repko (R Squared Consultants) wrote:
>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.

The SCO-Approved way of doing this is using lpr based network
printing.  Many people do this using standard SYSV printer
interface scripts and netcat.

I developed a printing system over 20 years ago where printers
are controlled by a system where I can route the print jobs to
systems anyplace on the Internet using ssh, but that's probably
not necessary in this case.  This was very handy when I was on a
contract in Laurel Maryland in 1987-1988, and could print
invoices on the local printer from our systems on Mercer Island.

Bill
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