CentOS and filePro printing

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

  Interesting....well, apprently in Linux, or with the PPD driver I
installed, filePro has to have the '-o raw' added
  In SCO it was simply    lp -dbizhubops -s
  In CentOS, it needs to be   lp -dbizhubops -o raw -s

  If I simply issue  lp -dbizhubops from command prompt in Linux, it will
print fine.  In filePro, not so  much??
  Strange - but at least it's working now :)

  Thanks for the input
  I'm sure I'll have more roadblocks along the way

  On a side note - does anyone know of a 'simple' way to 'import' users to
CentOS from SCO?
  I have about 60 users I need to get onto the new CentOS server

  For anyone curious- I have copied over a few of our largest data files -
the indexing and speed are SOOOO much faster on
  Linux vs. SCO -- should have changed years ago lol

  All in all, the actual hardware isn't tremendously different on the two
servers (SCO v Linux)
  SCO has Pentium 2.8 CPU, 2GB RAM on a Dell PowerEdge
  Linux has 2 x Xeon 3.2 w/4GB RAM on a Dell PowerEdge
  Both have RAID 1

  A process we run frequently takes about 6 1/2 minutes on the SCO box --
took 24 seconds on Linux box.
  Now granted the Linux box wasn't under a big load and had no users on it,
but when I ran it on the SCO box yesterday morning
  there were only about 12 users on and 3 of them were on break.
  Hope it's a sign of good things once it's all working.  I am planning on
pushing more RAM to the new Linux box - can't hurt :)

  Thanks again
  Scott

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Craig Tooker <craig at cwtsoftware.com> wrote:

> On 9/26/2011 14:21, scooter6 at gmail.com wrote:
> > Okay, some of you know I'm in the process of converting our SCO
> OpenServer
> > system to CentOS 5.5
> [snip]
> > This is a network printer - I downloaded the Linux driver (.ppd file) and
> > Linux itself sees it, prints a good test page, I can print a .txt file
> from
> > the command line, etc.
> Okay - so CUPS appears to be working.  You need to know the destination
> name of the printer.  Use:
> lpstat -t
> To get a list of printers defined on your system and their names.
> Whatever the name, make sure a printer is defined in filePro as follows
> (from the configuration editor):
> pfprinter|foo
> printer1|foo,hplaser,lp -ddest -o raw -s,Description
>
> Where "hplaser" is the printer type from filePro (you may use a
> different name) and "dest" is the destination name you obtained from the
> lpstat command.  Note that your "pfprinter" may be set to something else
> if this printer is *not* the default printer for filePro.  The
> "printer1" can be any number but the sequence *must* be contiguous.  If
> you have three printers defined they must be sequenced "printer1",
> "printer2", "printer3".
>
> As I'm sure you know, you can find the configuration editor within the
> directory option off the main filePro menu.  If you have less than ten
> printers defined you may also use the printer maintenance option to
> manage printers.
> >
> > However, filePro won't print anything to it??  Nothing - no blank page,
> > nothing....
> > It 'acts' like it does (meaning, I don't see any errors, etc)
> > When I'm browsing a file, I try to 'hardcopy' a screen and I see
> > 'application octet/stream' show up at the bottom? but doesn't print
> anything
> >
> > What am I missing here? Something is apparently 'a miss' from filePro to
> > Linux and sending print out put to the right place?
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Scott
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