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Article #31Communicating Lisp & Viewpoint 1186s
From: Tony_Sweeney
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1989 15:13
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1989 15:13
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Enric All things are possible: "1- How to communicate via Ethernet a Lisp 1186 and a Viewpoint 1186 ?" There is software called Dashlink which runs as a Viewpoint application, allowing the Viewpoint workstation to act as a Clearinghouse and Print service. We have used this succesfully. It is sold in this country by Rank Xerox, but with little enthusiasm (cause they sell fewer printservers), but we do have one customer who uses this. Try and get Xerox Spain to sell you it. "2- How to communicate via Ethernet a Unix machine with a Viewoint 1186 ?" This one is impossible to do directly, but... what we do is use the TCP library software on the lisp machine to run a TCPFTP server process. Write a shell script that puts files from Unix to a spool directory on the lisp machine. Write some lisp code that periodically looks in this directory and transfers them to the Dashlink workstation either for filing or printing. We use this mechanism to do all printing from our inhouse Unix machines to a 8000 printserver, but it should work equally well with Dashlink. If Xerox Spain can't or won't sell you Dashlink, then I'm afraid "3- It is impossible". Tony Sweeney Technical Support A I Limited.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!artificial-intelligence.co.uk!Tony_Sweeney From: Tony_Sweeney@artificial-intelligence.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox Subject: Communicating Lisp & Viewpoint 1186s Message-ID: <646988633.-1551427545@XEROXMAILER.AIL> Date: 21 Jul 89 15:13:00 GMT Sender: welch@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: inet Organization: Info-1100 Mailing List Lines: 32