Anybody here a SCO OSR6 Printer Guru?

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Jim Asman propounded (on Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 01:23:12PM -0700):
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| --------------- Original Message ---------------
| At 02:55P Thu Aug 07 2014, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
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| > This Is A Copy Of A Message Forwarded To "jlasman52 at gmail.com".
| > 
| > ===========================================================================
| > 
| > James Flanagan propounded (on Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 07:27:12PM -0400):
| > | JP, 
| > | 
| > | It appears that you are heading me in the right direction
| > | 
| > | I reviewed the page that you recommended: 
| http://wdb1.sco.com/kb/showta?taid=126336
| > | 
| > | And that led me to this, which appears to be exactly what I am looking for 
| (assuming I have a firm grasp on this): 
| > http://wdb1.sco.com/kb/showta?taid=126532
| > | 
| > | However, when i attempt to run the command (without the -E because it will 
| not run with it), I get the following error.
| > | 
| > | # /usr/lib/lpadmin -p xc550 -v socket://192.168.254.60:9100 -m 
| xrx550XC.ppd
| > | UX:lpadmin: ERROR: "socket://192.168.254.60:9100" doesn't exist.
| > |            TO FIX: Create the file, special device, or FIFO
| > |                    for the -v option before running this
| > |                    command.
| > | 
| > | I have reviewed socket creation in the manual, but that does not appear to 
| apply to this.  any idea how to create whatever SCO is looking for?  
| > thank you very much, 
| > 
| > 
| > I've never tried to use any command line instructions for CUPS printers.
| > Just fire up a graphical desktop on your SCO machine and enter the CUPS
| > console at http://localhost:631 (or do it from a windows browser pointed
| > to http://SCO6-IP-number:631). It isn't hard to use.
| > 
| > Or better, forget CUPS and follow Bill's Campbell's suggestion. Aren't
| > you already using filePro print codes for two trays?  Are they along the
| > lines of "$1b &l#H", where # is 1, 2, 3 or 4?  Concoct similar codes
| > with # being a single digit other than the two already used for trays
| > one and two.  HP did NOT assign them sequentially.  ;-(
| 
| With the mention of a PPD file, I assume that this is a Postscript Job 
| Stream and HP PCL codes don't count for anything.

In his first message, James wrote: "SCO and file pro can print to the
printer just fine to the 2 standard trays", so I inferred that filePro was
issuing PCL codes.

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JP