[HECnet] RSX IP stack

[Dave McGuire]

On 01/03/2016 10:00 AM, Mark Matlock wrote:
> 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'

  Ahh, that's an excellent suggestion, thank you Mark.  Most (all, I
think) of the non-vintage printers here do listen on port 9100.  Perfect.

> 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.

  I would love to hack on that at some point, but I don't see it
happening anytime soon.

               -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA