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From: Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, California
Subject:      Printer sharing between HP MPE and MS WfWg?
To: Multiple recipients of list HP3000-L <[log in to unmask]>
 
We have an HP 3000/980 running MPE/iX 4.0 attached to the same LAN as
our
Microsoft WindowsForWorkgroups PCs.  We'd like to know what solutions
exist
(if any) that allow us to:
 
1) From a WfWg PC, use standard WfWg printing mechanisms to send output
through
the LAN into the MPE system and out to the dedicated (non-LAN) MPE
printers.
 
2) From the MPE system, be able to send output spoolfiles over the LAN
to any
WfWg-attached printer.
 
This is a major production environment, so solutions must be as
automatic and
seemless as possible.
 
Your thoughtful suggestions will benefit the 100,000+ students in the
California Community College MIS Consortium member institutions for
years to
come.  Thanks!
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Mark Bixby                      E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Coast Community College Dist.   Web: http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/
District Information Services   1370 Adams Ave., Costa Mesa, CA, USA
92626-5429
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"You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." - tunefs(1M)
 
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I am aware of three products:
 
1. Unison/Tymlabs has a product which seems to be well integrated with
SPOOLMATE and several other management tools. (Palo Alto CA or
Sunnyvale ?)
 
2. Fransen/King has a product which takes HP print files and routes
them to a Novelle print queue. (Portland OR)
 
3. There are TCP/IP boards available for printers which make the
printers addressable to the network and the HP. I know that we have a
couple of these on our network because they keep going "down".
 
If any of these sound interesting INTEREX has addresses and/or I will
look them up.