Digital Equipment RapidPrint 500, Reference Manual

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UNIX Host Setup Reverse Telnet (RTEL)
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4. If applicable, choose the Share this printer on the network option. (This is not
recommended until the print queue is confirmed to be running properly.)
5. Click the Print To menu arrow to view its pull-down menu. Scroll to select the
OTHER
option.
6. Choose LPR Port and click the OK button.
7. In the resulting dialog box, provide the name or IP address of the host provid-
ing LPD, and the name of the RapidPrint 500 print service, and click OK.
8. In the printer-specific dialog box that appears, fill out the necessary information
and click OK.
9. If you’d like this printer to be the default printer, click the default menu arrow
on the Print Manager’s title bar and scroll to the printer’s name.
Figure 10-17: Print Manager Dialog Box
NOTE: Verify that you have read/write permissions on the NTFS file system.
10.3 Reverse Telnet (RTEL)
If the LPR method of printing is not adequate for an application (for example, if banners are
needed before jobs or more flexibility is needed in printing), the supplied RTEL software can be
configured on the host.
RTEL is a set of programs designed to allow host-initiated connections to devices attached to your
terminal/print server. The RTEL software is simply a transport mechanism, and as such, it makes
no assumptions about the actual devices attached to the server. Once the software is installed and
connections to the RapidPrint 500 have been configured, normal UNIX print commands and
queue utilities (such as lpc and lpstat) can be used.
The RTEL software is supported on seven platforms: AIX on IBM RS6000’s, ULTRIX on Digital
workstations, HP/UX on HP platforms, RISC/OS on MIPS workstations, SCO on PC platforms,
IRIX on SGI machines, Solaris on SUN workstations, and SUN/OS on SUN workstations. If the
target machine is not one of these platforms, some modification may be necessary to make the
RTEL software compile, link, and run properly. See the RTEL-build man page for hints on building
on unsupported platforms.
NOTE: RTEL Binaries are provided for many systems and source code is provided for use
on non-supported systems. See the Digital web site for a list of platforms.