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Plotting to a shared plotter
Name: eac Date: January 27, 2003 at 02:26:21 Pacific OS: OVMS 7.2 CPU/Ram: 500/256
Comment:
How could I sent a drawing from VMS to a shared plotter to a WinNT station
Name: ME Date: January 29, 2003 at 12:11:45 Pacific
Reply:
If you have a TCP/IP stack on your OpenVMS and NT boxes, than easiest is to install the Unix printing services on the NT box, and use LPD/LPR for communication. Unix printing services is an optional part of the NT installation.
If you want to connect the plotter as a NT share, you can install the freeware OpenVMS Samba client. Latest release will you find at http://www.pi-net.dyndns.org/anonymous/jyc/
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