Workstation printing from within X

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From: Al Gaspar
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:09

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    We have a LOT of PCs at our site with attached printers.  A number of
users are converting from using these PCs as dumb terminals (currently
most are using FTP Software's PC/TCP to connect to our UNIX boxes) to
using them as X servers with Hummingbird's HCL eXceed/W.

    With the straight connect with PC/TCP we were able to write a program
to send a job to their workstation printer because PC/TCP emulates a vt102
rather than just a plain (no print capability) vt100.  Hummingbird's telnet
emulates a vanilla vt100; so it doesn't allow you to print if using that
directly.

    When using Hummingbird's X server with PC/TCP, you still can't
use the workstation printer directly.  I think I understand why this
is--there isn't a way to separate what was coming from one xterm (pty)
and going to the screen and what was coming from another and destined for
the printer.  What I was wondering was if there was some way around this
that would give us back at least some of the functionality of having attached
printers at our workstations?  Thanks for any help, advice, suggestions...

Cheers--

Al

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