Windows 10 SCO Filepro issue

[Fairlight]

I don't think we disagree entirely.  That's essentially what I'm trying to
get at:  What -is- the default printer, exactly?  It could be anything.
Could be a printer, could be a shared printer, could be a shell script that
tucks the contents away in a deep, dark hole.  We don't know, so we have to
ask.

I will concede, after thinking about it a moment longer, that it
-shouldn't- be (easily) possible to make a pass-thru printer as a queue
device, largely because it should theoretically be divorced from the tty at
the point of intake, and have no real way of knowing what tty to speak to.
It would really depend on how determined you were, and the facilities of
the print queue.  It does seem improbable, especially on SCO.  So that
suggested possibility is almost certainly ruled out.  Granted.

Everyone has been correct in saying that the print spooler -should- be the
first hop, though, all things being equal.

The real question is, "What -exactly- is the default printer definition?"
That, and was something else other than lp/lpr defined as the print command
in filePro in a way that would affect Hardcopy?  (I'm not even sure that's
possible for Hardcopy; like I said, it's been decades, and I was really
never a paper person anyway.  I used it like twice, probably.)

m->


On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:40:55AM +1100, Ken Cole thus spoke:
> Mark,
> 
> I disagree.
> 
> There should be no "transparent pass-thru device".
> 
> The way H-Hardcopy works is entirely on the Unix/Linux server and it
> prints directly to the users default Unix printer or maybe the system
> default Unix printer.
> 
> The only trickery that may be going on is that the printer is a SAMBA
> printer that is directing the print job back to a Windows printer or
> some sort of scripting to direct it back to a Windows printer and
> those capabilities may not be available or from a security perspective
> allowed in Win 10.
> 
> Ken
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 09:55, Fairlight via Filepro-list
> <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 03:16:13PM -0700, Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> > > If you're trying to do H = Hardcopy, that should happen strictly
> > > from SCO to printer; what you use for terminal emulator should be
> > > irrelevant. Isn't that right?
> >
> > That's correct, although it would appear to a user to not be the case if
> > the target printer were set up to be a transparent pass-thru device.
> >
> > m->
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