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In article <cld1.724084419@Isis.MsState.Edu> cld1@ra.msstate.edu (Charles L. Dunn) writes:
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>We need some way to use the printers that we have on  our 2200/422 to print
>output from unix boxes. The printer model is 9246-25b. 
>
>The best way would be if the 2200 supported the UNIX LPR/LPD protocol and we 
>could lpr files from a Sun across the network to the printers.  
>
>A less optimal solution, but still something  we would consider, would be to 
>equip the printer with a serial interface so that it could be connected to 
>a Sun directly.  A variation on this would be to have some sort of switch that
>would select 2200 channel interface or earth serial interface, so that the 
>printer could be manually switched between the two.
>
>If we could get the LPR/LPD support by installing a channel attached ethernet 
>controller, we would consider this option. 
>
>Any suggestions would be appreciated.

There are two software products for the 2200 which should be sufficient to 
accomplish what you want to do.  They are SX1100 and NFS 2200 (which is a 
subset of SX1100.)  SX1100 is a version of AT&T Unix V.3.1 for the 2200 series.
It contains significant networking capabilities such as ftp, NFS, uucp via
Ethernet using either a Host Lan Controller (HLC) or DCP Ethernet line 
modules, etc.  With SX you should be able to configure a print queue that
would ship the file to SX and execute an lp command there.  (Unfortunately
SX does not have the Berkley lpr/lpd commands.)  This is discussed in the
SX Administrator's Guide (7831 1016-000) pp 10-30.  We use it here to go the 
reverse direction for small print jobs that we want printed on a Postscript
or HP laser printer.  

A cheaper alternative would be NFS 2200 which, as I mentioned above, is a 
subset of SX 1100 - not all commands are included in the release.  There is
enough to do your task though.  You could move the print files to the 
2200 via NFS or ftp and have a cron job that looked for something to 
print every few minutes.  Hope this helps.

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