Our customer has a Xerox printer with an Ethernet card that uses the
lpd protocol. At the RS/6000 the printer is configured as a
traditional remote printer. When they try to print an ordinary
ascii file ( /etc/profile , for instance) the file prints all in
one line, ignoring carriage returns and line feeds. The manual of
the printer says that an option should be passed to the printer. That
option is lpa (for ascii files) . They have an example for BSD systems:
in the /etc/printcap in the definition of the printer this option
should be passed by the parameter
rp=lpa
How can I pass this option to the printer in AIX v.3.2.5 ?
Using rembak -o lpa doesn't work ¢ Neither rembak -X ¢¢
Can you help me with this ?
By the way, we can ftp the file to the printer, and it prints OK if
we set the ascii option in the ftp program ¢
There should be a way of doing the same for the remote lpd program.
Do you know how ?
ANSWER
We do not have the hardware to correctly test this, but it may be worth
your time to try using rembak -o rp -o lpa. This is the way 'enq' works,
so it may work the same for going to the Xerox printer.
If this does not work, then you can get around this problem by setting
up a single remote queue to the printer, as you have done, and then make
a virtual printer to set the ASCII mode and provide all of the carriage
returns and line feeds for you.
To do this, you will need to do the following:
1. Obtain root on the system.
2. Type:
touch /dev/lxx
3. Type:
mkvirprt
4. Choose the option of a printer attached to the host.
5. When given the prompt to enter the device, you should type
in 'lxx'. This is using a "dummy" device so you can fool the
system into thinking there is a printer there. Choose the
ASCII virtual printer option.
6. You can set up the virtual printer any way you wish: with
header and trailer pages, etc... When you finish setting
up the virtual printer, you should type:
lsvirprt
7. Now, choose the queue you just created. Now type:
mo=enq -P
Where the queuename is the name of the remote queue to the
Xerox printer.
8. Exit the program.
Now, you have a full featured remote queue. It can also provide header
and trailer pages for you.
S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:
RISC PRINTER REMOTE
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