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Chapter 7 Setting Up – Unix
Reverse Telnet
Often used for printing via a terminal server printer port. Only rec-
ommended if you already have a Reverse Telnet driver installed.
Advantages:
Easy to set up with previously installed Reverse Telnet drivers.
Limitations:
No status logging. Drivers are not supplied with the EasyLAN 100i.
Existing drivers may be slow.
Other UNIX Systems
Most UNIX systems resemble either BSD or System V and so with
some ingenuity, a solution can also be devised for other variants.
If the system has BSD socket type networking support, then
prosbsd
(in the
bsd
directory of the EasyLAN 100i) can be used
as a starting point. It receives print data from
stdin
, and writes a
log file to
stderr
. Nothing is written to
stdout
.
Alternatively, FTP may be used. It is a good idea to use
bsd/
ftp_bsd
or
sysv/ftp_sysv
as a starting point.
IBM MVS Systems
A sample JCL script,
jclex
, is available in the
mvs
directory of
the EasyLAN 100i. It gives an example of how to print a file from
an MVS mainframe to an EasyLAN 100i using FTP.
Printing Methods
on TCP/IP
Networks, cont'd.
