How can I print to/from Unix, Novell, VMS or NT using a Prime?
I have a Prime 5370 running primos rev24.00 and TCP/IP rev 3 and a network of fifty PCs all with WFW3.11 and TCP/IP as well. I want to be able to spool from the Prime to a network printer. I have found LPR clients for the network, but can’t find lpd daemon for the Prime, anyone have any ideas of an inexpensive way to do this. Computronics sells a product called LPR that allows the standard rev 22 or later Prime spooler to print to any LPD compatible printer. This operation is transparent to the user and one despooler can service more than one printer. The LPR software also supports Unix like “lpr” and “lpq” commands. The “lpq” command can be used to display the queue status of queues on other systems from a user that is on the Prime system. LPD also allows any system that supports the LPD protocol to print to printers on the Prime. No special spooler is required on the Prime. Even non-standard spoolers such as third party spoolers or Rev 19 style spoolers can be used to print from othe
