Printing problems Vax to Unix

[Jeff Hoffman]

Hi

Have to partially retract my statement that you can do things with LP & 
LPR, it depends on the flavour of Unix, HP-UX is good, Digial Unix is not.

Jeff

At 08:58 AM 30/08/2006, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>You can set printer defaults  in unix (check out the man pages for lp or 
>lpr) so you may not need to do the sed stuff or change the programs with 
>initial headings, and check the binary mode transfer.
>
>Alternatively if your users are using PC's & Reflection terminal emulator 
>then there are DCL scripts available to print to the default printer on 
>the PC, this could be effective for smallish reports, but would require 
>changes that could take a bit of thought & experiment.
>
>Jeff
>
>At 05:53 AM 30/08/2006, you wrote:
>>Glenn,
>>
>>As a super quick-and-dirty, you can use awk a/o sed to massage the file 
>>before you print it.  Specifically you can add control strings to set the 
>>font at the top of the file, convert record terminators, etc.  If you 
>>need the control string values for the printer that you're talking to, 
>>printing to a file from Word can help you capture these values easily.
>>
>>Is this approach...
>>Elegant? No.
>>Flexible between printers from various manufacturers? No.
>>Obscure and potentially tedious to maintain? Yes.
>>Easy to get up and running without extensive research? Yes.
>>
>>jb
>>
>>
>>Ken Langendock <Ken at Langendock.com> wrote:
>>Glenn, Are you ftp'ing them in Binary mode?
>>
>>As for the Font size, you may have to add an INITIAL HEADING to set the 
>>font to the correct size for the printer you are trying to print on. 
>>Vax's have defaults that work well with printers...UNIX machines don't 
>>seem to care about anything.
>>
>>Ken
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com at lists.sowder.com 
>>[mailto:powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com at lists.sowder.com] On 
>>Behalf Of Glenn Gipman
>>Sent: August 29, 2006 2:13 PM
>>To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
>>Subject: Printing problems Vax to Unix
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Here's the situation:
>>
>>The client has just moved into a new office and (because of politics) the 
>>vax print queues no longer exist. So Quiz reports are being written to 
>>disc, transferred to a Unix box using SFTP, then printed from there. It 
>>seems that this should work OK but the reports are not printing properly. 
>>One problem is the font size. The 2nd problem is the control characters 
>>are being interpreted as garbage.
>>
>>Help! I need a quick fix.
>>
>>Any help will be much appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Glenn Gipman - Vancouver, B.C.
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