From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Brad Hubbard" To: "gnu-win32" Subject: Fw: Printing from Unix to an NT machine printer? Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 03:57:00 -0000 Message-id: X-SW-Source: 1997-10/msg00385.html Regards Brad Hubbard Hygrade@mpx.com.au ---------- > From: Brad Hubbard > To: Michael Haub > Subject: Re: Printing from Unix to an NT machine printer? > Date: Saturday, October 18, 1997 6:29 PM > > If it's a BSD based UNIX system you should be able to use the -v > option to tell NT to leave it alone. There's actually more to it than that but > I set up a half dozen printers ( No Postscript but some PCL, HPGL and PPS > (a type of bastardized HPGL), but Postscript should work) quite some time ago > now and the finer point escape me. The setup was going from HPUX 9.05 to an NT > 3.51 Server. > > If you would like further info. let me know. > > Regards > Brad Hubbard > Hygrade@mpx.com.au > > ---------- > > From: Michael Haub > > To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com > > Subject: RE: Printing from Unix to an NT machine printer? > > Date: Saturday, October 18, 1997 6:40 AM > > > > Hi, > > > > don't we all like Micro$oft. Here is what they say about their own kind > > of lpd: > > > > (I only got a german TCP/IP handbook for NT 3.51 Server. So I try to > > translate.) > > > > "... The LPDSVC service supports every printing format, including > > unformated text. > > No additional processing will be taken. ..." > > > > This is clever and true. As NT has no filters it can only print raw text. > > So if you rely on the poor nt lpd implementation and you tell the lpd of your > > unix box to forward printing to the nt box (take a look at man printcap) > > you will get nice source code listings of your postscript files, ;-) > > as nt will not filter through ghostscript. > > A linux box would do that for a local printer. > > > > > > Yourth sincere > > Michael > > > > > > - > > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > > "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".