RE: The lists are closing
Wo... Lighten up, please. We're all trying to figure this out. And its not too late to start helping out. After tomorrow's meeting of the U2UG board (an all-volunteer board, so far; we haven't gotten around to having elections yet), we may be able to put forward some ideas as to where we're going and how YOU can help. I look at it like this: If you had to do it yourself, honestly, could you have done a better, more professional job? And if so, why didn't you volunteer to assist?!? They would have LOVED to have more help I'm sure!! Be glad people who are willing to do labors of love are here, and willing to share... Dana Baron System Manager Smugglers' Notch Resort -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
RE: The lists are closing
There seems to be much confusion here. Let me take a shot at straightening it out: 1. The U2 lists have been run by Clif Oliver for a very long time. Clif has no direct ties to IBM or any of the companies who owned the U2 products before hand. 2. Clif has been running the lists on his own time; a very big undertaking. I think we are all very grateful to Clif for doing such an excellent job at this task for so long (I know I certainly am!) 3. Clif's decision to stop running the lists is his own. It was not a decision of U2UG or IBM - it was Clif's decision; a decision that is well within his rights (see #2 above). 4. One reason Clif decided to stop running the lists is that U2UG is moving toward filling the same need. Clif was looking at duplicate work coming along and decided that this was a good time to get out (if I read Clif's intentions correctly). 5. U2UG, which has no DIRECT ties to IBM either, is a nascent users' organization with plans to represent the interests of the U2 community with IBM. We're just now getting off the ground. We have our third or fourth meeting coming up tomorrow night. 6. The U2UG web site has U2 fora as the means of communication, something which people have been asking for for a long time. The decision to start the fora was made when the lists were also available so it was then considered as something in addition to, not instead of, the lists. 7. As Clif is pulling out of running the lists, the fora become the only game in town. But this is not the end of the world. There exists the possibility that mail lists can continue with someone else running them. 8. The MAJOR topic of discussion at tomorrow's U2UG board meeting will be the future of U2 communication technology. Clif is expected to be present at the meeting and will probably be willing to share his accumulated wisdom in this area, provided we don't provoke him too much in our ongoing discussions of the past, present and future of communication in the U2 community. Dana Baron System Manager Smugglers' Notch Resort -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
RE: Printing to "local" printer
Wol, Thanks for the idea. Looks promising but we're on a Unix server. Is there a way to refer to the local printers across operating systems? My SETPTR documentation refers to mode 2 and the DEVICE setting as sending output to the Unix special file. Can the shared printer be defined as a unix special file without setting up a network print queue? Dana Baron System Manager Smugglers' Notch Resort -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony Youngman Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 7:02 AM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: RE: Printing to "local" printer What I'd do ... This is UV, but I got the impression that UD might well work the same way ... A lot of our printers, rather than saying "AT DEVICE" in the SETPTR statement, say "AT \\windows\sharename". So each printer is set up on the local pc to which it is attached, and the UV server knows nothing about it at the Windows level (we have UV/NT). Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dana Baron Sent: 26 February 2004 19:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Printing to "local" printer Hi, We use Unidata (v5.2) on a DEC/Compaq/HP Alpha under Tru64 Unix (v5.0a). Most of our users connect to our Unidata system via terminal emulation software (SmartTerm) from Windows-based PCs. Some of those users function as point-of-sale terminals. We're now trying to integrate credit card validation via the internet directly from those work stations. We're still in test mode, but most of this seems to working OK. One remaining issue is printing the CC receipt. We would like the receipts to print on CC receipt printers attached to the workstation as either parallel or serial printers. We'd rather not set up print queues for all of these. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Dana Baron System Manager Smugglers' Notch Resort -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users *** This transmission is intended for the named recipient only. It may contain private and confidential information. If this has come to you in error you must not act on anything disclosed in it, nor must you copy it, modify it, disseminate it in any way, or show it to anyone. Please e-mail the sender to inform us of the transmission error or telephone ECA International immediately and delete the e-mail from your information system. Telephone numbers for ECA International offices are: Sydney +61 (0)2 9911 7799, Hong Kong + 852 2121 2388, London +44 (0)20 7351 5000 and New York +1 212 582 2333. *** -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Printing to "local" printer
Hi, We use Unidata (v5.2) on a DEC/Compaq/HP Alpha under Tru64 Unix (v5.0a). Most of our users connect to our Unidata system via terminal emulation software (SmartTerm) from Windows-based PCs. Some of those users function as point-of-sale terminals. We're now trying to integrate credit card validation via the internet directly from those work stations. We're still in test mode, but most of this seems to working OK. One remaining issue is printing the CC receipt. We would like the receipts to print on CC receipt printers attached to the workstation as either parallel or serial printers. We'd rather not set up print queues for all of these. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Dana Baron System Manager Smugglers' Notch Resort -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
RE: Printing to "local" printer
Tim and Diane, Thanks for the quick replies! I guess I need to be a little more specific. We really want to have our cake and eat it to. We use AUX ON / AUX OFF for local printers already. The problem is, we want to be able to specify which local printer to use as the AUX. So, when the user is printing a CC receipt, it would print to the printer attached to the PC that is defined as the CC receipt printer. But, when the user is trying to print a report, it would print to the local laser printer (which could also be a networked printer). One way to do this is to have the user switch the local printer within SmartTerm, but we wanted to try to handle this in the software, if possible, because...well, you know how users are. Thanks Dana Baron System Manager Smugglers' Notch Resort -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Timothy Snyder Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 2:51 PM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: Re: Printing to "local" printer Dana, You can use @(-24) to turn on aux printing and @(-25) to turn it off. Tim Snyder IBM Data Management Solutions Consulting I/T Specialist , U2 Professional Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dana Baron wrote on 02/26/2004 02:07:20 PM: > We would like the receipts to print on CC receipt > printers attached to the workstation as either parallel or serial printers. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
