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Conference jamin::pw95ift

Title:PATHWORKS for Windows 95
Notice:PWW95 1.0A Available -- See notes 3.39 and 8.7
Moderator:JAMIN::SYSTEMROM
Created:Thu Nov 17 1994
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:646
Total number of notes:2900

644.0. "Local printing & PW95?" by TLAV02::PIPHOB () Fri May 23 1997 12:46

    Hello,
    
    I have Pathworks Server 5.0D & Pathworks for Windows 95 and paralle
    printer with PC. How to make Local printing with PW95 using LAT?
    
    Thanks for any reply,
    Piphob S.
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644.1SPELNK::curlessFri May 23 1997 19:176
You don't, it's not supported in PATHWORKS for Windows 95 v1.0, or v1.0a

There is a way to do it with PATHWORKS 32 v7.0, over DECnet or TCP/IP

Jeff
644.2?TLAV01::PIPHOBSat May 24 1997 14:219
    Jeff,
    
    How about if we do install pw for dos /windows v6.0 and make local
    printing? 
    
    For PW 7.0, Could you tell us the concept to do local printing?
    
    Thanks
    Piphob S.
644.3in shortSPELNK::curlessTue May 27 1997 14:186
Under PATHWORKS 32 v7.0, a print symbiot is loaded on the Digital Unix, or 
OpenVMS system that communicates to a widget on Win95, or NT v4.0... that
inturn communicates to ANY accessable printer.

Jeff
644.4TLAV01::PIPHOBTue May 27 1997 16:098
    Jeff,
    
    Can it support Postscript? Can we have only PATHWORKS 32 v7.0 on Client
    side?
    
    Thanks
    Piphob S.
644.5SPELNK::curlessTue May 27 1997 18:0620
I'm a little unsure about this but... it supports whatever the printer supports,
so... if a POSTSCRIPT file where shipped, it would print as postscript on a
postscript printer, garbage on a text only printer...

I don't understand the "can we have only PATHWORKS 32 v7.0 on client" 
portion, do you mean:

 *only* PATHWORKS 32 clients can connect and use the printer?

Nope, ANY client that can connect to the printer Queue can print to a 
printer connected to an NT/Win95 machine running PATHWORKS 32.

So, if you are sitting in a Terminal Emulator on an OpenVMS system, and 
want a printout, you can PRINT TO THE PRINTER attached to your NT server 
(or whatever) through a VMS print Queue.  A Windows 95 system could also
connect either to the VMS print queue, or DIRECTLY to the NT printer Queue
and print a job

Jeff
644.6THOLIN::TBAKERThe Spirit of ApathyWed May 28 1997 13:3212
    I believe the question was - can a PostScript printer send
    information back to the VMS system?

    This was a problem with the old reverse LAT.  The VMS queues
    needed to get a response from the printer.  Our parallel port
    solution didn't take this into account.  It wasn't until we
    has serial support that we could fully support PostScript.

    In answer to the question of whether or not PWPRINT handles
    this 2 way interaction: I don't know.

    Tom