Re: Host-based printing in linux
James Rich <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250 |
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On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, John Aldrich wrote: > How does one set up a host-based AS/400 printer in Linux? We have several > laser printers hooked up to Windows PCs that print through Windows from the > AS/400 and I'd like to replicate that in Linux. > > I know I need to get the printer set up in Linux first, but then what? How > does one set up an AS/400 "Printer" on the local machine? The short answer is to create a printer session definition in your tn5250rc file and then start lp5250d passing that session name as an argument. The long answer is to read the HOWTO: http://www.chowhouse.com/~james/tn5250-HOWTO.pdf James Rich if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond when you're done reading them :) - Paul Davis on ardour-dev -- This is the Linux 5250 Development Project (LINUX5250) mailing list To post a message email: LINUX5250-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/linux5250 or email: LINUX5250-request-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250.