Help with printing direction please

[taylormade]

In my character develpment environment, I need to direct the printer output to the default printer on the user's system (Windows).
Now, I can only accomodate printers on my system using the command:

OUTPUT stream printer Through lp -d VALUE(dfile) paged.

Is there a command that will pipe it thru the local default Windows printer?
rbender@rosina.com

 

[Simon Sweetman]

You may need to set the default printer up as a shared printer under windows. And then use something like samba on your unix box to setup a lp printer device that prints to the required shared printer.

Some Terminal emulation programs do allow local printing using specific printer escape sequences. This might work if you setup a lp script to output the correct sequences.

This Thread may be of some help

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=687795

 

[taylormade]

your thread suggestion doesn't work ..?

is it correct ?

 

[Simon Sweetman]

Looks like something funny is happening with posting links. You may have to type the text in the address field manually:

http://tinyurl.com/4gz6g

or

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=687795

This is just one idea on a possible solution.

Many character terminals (wyse60 for example) had a serial printer port attached to them. If a character application wanted to print it could use a special escape sequence to switch the terminal output to the printer port and back again. Many windows terminal emulation software programs will print to the default printer when this happens. You should be able to setup a unix spooler script that prints unix files using these escape sequences.