Remote printing from a DOS machine to Xenix's LP system

[John Poplett]

A few weeks ago I posted a query concerning the possibility of
sending print jobs from a DOS machine to a Xenix system across
a serial line in some kind of transparent manner. 

After an overwhelming response, I decided to put together my
own solution.

I modified a DOS "PRN" driver that to shoot print jobs out the serial
port to the Xenix system. It honors Xon/Xoff and, most importantly,
sends an ASCII EOT at the end of each transmission (appropriately
enough) to the Xenix box. 

A simple shell script on the Xenix side sits on a given serial
line and redirects each incoming file to the LP system.

It has seen limited testing here; it behaves just as though
the DOS machine was directly attached to the destination printer.

If anyone wishes a copy of the code, let me know. 

John

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