Ian -
I've never been satisfied with the LPR command in CMS so I use these
commands:
cp spool print rscs
cp tag dev prt [printer name]
I have an EXEC that issues thes commands under the covers.
On a FILELIST screen the users types: SPRT / [printer name]
/Fran Hensler at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania USA for 45 years
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:26:04 +0200 Jones, Ian H said:
>
>Guys,
>
>This is probably a stupid question, but it is getting urgent and I don't have
>any more time to play with it.
>
>We are trying to print to IP printers for the first time. This looks like it
>should have been a straight forward change; CMS users used to send output to
>type SNA3270P printers and now they want to send it to IP attached printers
>instead. There seems to be many different ways of specifying the printer name
>and IP address of the target printers and I chose what looks like the simplest.
>In the RSCS config I have coded -
>
>LINKDEFINE LPR1 TYPE LPR AST FORM *
>PARM LPR1 EXIT=LPRXONE EP='C=LPR' ITO=0 PR=QEEPLE22 US=YES HOST=10.120.72.245
>
>LINKDEFINE LPR2 TYPE LPR AST FORM *
>PARM LPR2 EXIT=LPRXONE EP='C=LPR' ITO=0 PR=QEEPLE29 US=YES HOST=10.120.73.222
>
>
>I am using the LPRXONE exit supplied in RSCSEXIT LOADLIB and the RSCSLPR CONFIG
>supplied with TCP/IP, because I don't (think I) have any additional
>requirements.. RSCS starts the printer links OK and then immediately
>deactivates
>them, presumably because I have specified ITO=0.
>
>So far, so good (?), but when I try to send a print file to them using LPR
>exec,
>RSCS rejects the file because it has an invalid destination address. I get the
>same result whether I use the printer name or the IP (host) address. LPR exec
>insists on using the default linkid (LPR) coded in the exec. I'm obviously
>missing something in the configuration of these things. Do I *need* a nicknames
>file ? I thought that these were one of the many options, rather than
>compulsory.
>
>
>Regards
>Ian Jones
>UKOSG - Infrastructure Specialist
>EDS
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