[HECnet] RSX IP stack

[Mark Matlock]

Dave,
   If you happen to have a networked printer that listens to port 9100 on your local network (e.g. 192.168.0.printer)  which is pretty common, then the following command is a quick, although a bit primitive  way to print from RSX with BQTCP.

pip tc:"192.168.0.nn";9100=file.txt

nn is printer tcp/ip address
file.txt is file to be printer

   I put this is a command file 'netprt.cmd' with 'p1' to hold file.txt  

.DISABLE QUIET
.ENABLE SUBSTITUTION
; Printing 'p1'
pip tc:"192.168.0.nn";9100='p1'

   As Johnny suggested, his PCL.C can be modified to work with the RSX print queues, but you will need PDP11C V1.2
for a clean compilation.

Mark




On Jan 3, 2016, at 5:24 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> On 2016-01-03 04:22, Dave McGuire wrote:
>> 
>>   Hey Johnny, have you thought about adding lpr/lpd support to your IP
>> stack?  In particular I'd love to have the ability to print from an RSX
>> system to a networked printer.
> 
> I actually have not thought about that specific protocol, no. I did the direct printing for PCL printers, but that was more an experiment.
> I suspect doing the lpr protocol would be dead simple starting with my pcl code.
> Any takers? The pcl implementation is even written in C, so grabbing that and doing an lpr implementation shouldn't be hard for anyone.
> 
> I'm currently starting to write the Multinet compatible line drivers for DECnet for RSX, so I don't have the cycles right now.
> 
> 	Johnny
> 
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