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george@ornews.intel.com (George Rachor) writes:

>I've been given the task of adding Novell print services to our existing
>Intel(Interactive Unix 3.2) applications.  I've run into an apparant
>roadblock in that I understand that Novell requires line printer daemon
>(lpd) protocol to talk to it and I don't seem to have this in the version
>of Unix that we are running.  

I know this is a mean hack, but it works:
Put down a slave PC on your lan that can connect to the required Netware 
and Unix servers.
Connect to the Netware server and "capture" the required printers onto
lpt1/2/3 (max 3 per workstation).
Start up an ftp server on the PC e.g. CUTCP telnet.
Ftp the print file from the Unix machine onto the appropriate lpt 
"file" on the PC.  Netware will take care of the rest.
The ftp commands can easily be built into the interface file of a spooled
printer on the unix machine.
The PC can be used as a telnet client simultaneously.

There is a problem that only one ftp session at time can be open on the 
PC.  However, as Netware spools the job, files are usually downloaded onto
the PC/File Server quickly, or in a shorter period than ftp's timeout on
opening a session.  As a backup, if the ftp fails, the job should be 
resubmitted to the same queue by the interface file after the appropriate
delay.

There you go - much cheaper than buying Flex/IP
-- 
David Mason, Unix system support.
Aztec Information Management, Cape Town, South Africa.
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