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<div class="gmail_quote" >On Oct 30, 2018, at 8:18 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list <<a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com" target="_blank">filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="blue">I don't think we disagree entirely. That's essentially what I'm trying to<br>get at: What -is- the default printer, exactly? It could be anything.<br>Could be a printer, could be a shared printer, could be a shell script that<br>tucks the contents away in a deep, dark hole. We don't know, so we have to<br>ask.<br><br>I will concede, after thinking about it a moment longer, that it<br>-shouldn't- be (easily) possible to make a pass-thru printer as a queue<br>device, largely because it should theoretically be divorced from the tty at<br>the point of intake, and have no real way of knowing what tty to speak to.<br>It would really depend on how determined you were, and the facilities of<br>the print queue. It does seem improbable, especially on SCO. So that<br>suggested possibility is almost certainly ruled out. Granted.<br><br>Everyone has been correct in saying that the print spooler -should- be the<br>first hop, though, all things being equal.<br><br>The real question is, "What -exactly- is the default printer definition?"<br>That, and was something else other than lp/lpr defined as the print command<br>in filePro in a way that would affect Hardcopy? (I'm not even sure that's<br>possible for Hardcopy; like I said, it's been decades, and I was really<br>never a paper person anyway. I used it like twice, probably.)<br><br>m-><br><br><br>On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:40:55AM +1100, Ken Cole thus spoke:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Mark,<br> <br> I disagree.<br> <br> There should be no "transparent pass-thru device".<br> <br> The way H-Hardcopy works is entirely on the Unix/Linux server and it<br> prints directly to the users default Unix printer or maybe the system<br> default Unix printer.<br> <br> The only trickery that may be going on is that the printer is a SAMBA<br> printer that is directing the print job back to a Windows printer or<br> some sort of scripting to direct it back to a Windows printer and<br> those capabilities may not be available or from a security perspective<br> allowed in Win 10.<br> <br> Ken<br> On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 09:55, Fairlight via Filepro-list<br> <filepro-list@lists.celestial.com> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 03:16:13PM -0700, Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list thus spoke:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"> If you're trying to do H = Hardcopy, that should happen strictly<br> from SCO to printer; what you use for terminal emulator should be<br> irrelevant. Isn't that right?<br></blockquote><br> That's correct, although it would appear to a user to not be the case if<br> the target printer were set up to be a transparent pass-thru device.<br><br> m-><br> --<br> Audio panton, cogito singularis.<br><hr><br> Filepro-list mailing list<br> Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com<br> Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes<br> <a href="http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list">http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list</a><br></blockquote> <br></blockquote></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>