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PROS B
PROS B - Advantages:
It provides accounting and status logging. Supports bi-directional
printing. The printer information read back can be viewed in a
log file.
PROS B - Limitations:
A ‘C’ compiler is required to build the PROS B drivers and in the
case of BSD, it may conflict with other input or output filters. It
does not allow both input and output filters. Interface programs
can not be used in System V.
Note:
Reverse Telnet
Often used for printing via a terminal server printer port. Only
recommended 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 AXIS
5470e/570/670e. 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 AXIS 5470e/570/670e) 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
AXIS 5470e/570/670e. It gives an example of how to print a file from
an MVS mainframe to an AXIS 5470e/570/670e using FTP.
You can download a ‘C’ compiler from http://www.gnu.org/.
Summary of Contents for AXIS 570
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