🚀 go-pugleaf

JF, you're tripping.  You're trolling the newsgroups so fast and furiously
you can't even keep your trolling aliases straight.  You forgot to switch back
after trolling the shit out of the sci.space.* groups.  Here you are posting in
comp.os.vms as "John Doe".  Oops!

Calm down.  Take a break.  Go play with your pesky foreskin (what's left of it)
for a while.

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denny wrote:
> The user is encouraged to design a form in EXCEL, and when finished,
> use the "print to a file" option. This produces a file of PJL and PCL
> code.
> 

You should use postcript instead.


> However, if we say $ Print <file> /que=<printer> - using a queue build
> on the same printer we used for the FTP commands, we get gibberish.

You may wish to clarify your use of the term "FTP". FTP is a file transfer
protocol, few printers if any support this.

VMS does not support FTP to printers.

> We would really like to be able to send these jobs (ultimately) to a
> queued printer rather than the direct-FTP model that works.


Are you using DCPS,  ? Which print queue symbiont is used ? 
(show queue/full will tell you which processor/symbiont is in charge of that queue).

If you do a dir/full or the PCL files, what does it show ?  You need to find
oiut if this is a text format or a binary format. If it is a text format, you
may need to do text transfers from your wintel box to the VMS box. 

If you are using a simple text symbiont to the printer, you will need to
ensure it doesn't fold lines, doesn't expand tabs etc etc, and if this is
though a terminal device such as LAT: you also nee dto set terminal
characterictics to be /PASTHROUGH and /NOHOSTSYNC/NOTTSYNC if you wish to have
true transparence (assuming there is hardware flow control).

In other words, if you are attemtingf to pass binary data via a text
interface, you need to muck with that text interface not to filter any of the data.

You may wish to look into DCPS which can now handle PCL.