SCO and passthrough print.

[William J. McEachran]

For those interested,  the issue turned out to be 'something' in
.../fp/termcap.
The two boxes had the same entry ... or so it appeared.
I overwrote the 'scoansi' entry on the bad box with the entry from the good
box and all started working fine.

I'm a bit confused about why it works now from a printer defined in
.../appl/fp/config which calls the anzio pass-through script ... but I'm
happy with it all working.
I'm guessing there was more than one issue in the .../fp/termcap file that
was involved.

Thanks to Mike Dawson for the reminders on how this all works.

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On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 10:19 AM, William J. McEachran <
bill.mceachran at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to those that replied here and privately ... you got me thinking.
>
> I connected to a 2nd SCO box that I've got access to -- and managed to get
> basic passthru printing working from the command line in filepro.
> I couldn't get that far on the box I was working on .... so something is
> mis-configured on my target machine.
>
> I'll figure out what happened and report back.
>
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> Bill McEachran
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>
>
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 5:07 PM, Bob Rasmussen <ras at anzio.com> wrote:
>
>> Bill,
>>
>> While I clear the dust from my memory cells, let me ask:
>>
>> 1) Are you using Anzio on the other end?
>>
>> 2) What terminal type is Anzio emulating? VT-something or SCOANSI, I hope?
>>
>> 3) What happens when you try to print from FP? Nothing, or it displays on
>> the screen, or what?
>>
>> 4) Have you tried setting PFPT on?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 7 Mar 2018, William J. McEachran via Filepro-list wrote:
>>
>> I find myself dealing with a SCO Unix machine after a long absence.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to get passthrough printing working through filePro
>>> ../fp/lib/config printer configuration.
>>>
>>> I use a script pulled from Anziowin web site long ago, and I doubt I
>>> changed it at all.
>>>
>>> The script (I call it /usr/local/scripts/passprt):
>>> <<<
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> # Anzio-ized passthrough printing.
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/printf "\034receive quiet\035"   #Eliminate remaining messages
>>> /usr/bin/printf "\034flushtimer 0\035"    #turn off the print flush timer
>>> /usr/bin/printf "\033[5i"                 #Set pass-thru print on
>>> /bin/cat $*
>>> /usr/bin/printf "\033[4i"                 #Set pass-thru print off
>>> /usr/bin/printf "\034flush\035"           #Print it Now!
>>> /usr/bin/printf "\034flushtimer 5\035"    #Reset flush time to default
>>> (cler
>>> k use?)
>>> /usr/bin/printf "\034receive quiet off\035"  #Reset transfer mode
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>> In Linux I'd add a printer in ../fp/lib/config with a line line like:
>>> printer21=passthru,printwiz,| /usr/local/scripts/passprt, Passthru
>>> terminal
>>>
>>> Not working on SCO.
>>>
>>> I've checked and if I login on SCO as user filepro and do something like:
>>> ls -ld * | /usr/local/scripts/passprt
>>> I get what I want happening.
>>>
>>> How can I get similar pass through printing done in filepro on SCO?
>>>
>>> Thanks all.
>>>
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>> Regards,
>> ....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.
>>
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