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>Is there a way to get an MPE spoolfile to properly print to an external NT
>printer using Samba?  I've been able to print plain text files using
>smbclient and I have been able to get a spoolfile to print, however escape
>characters show up as garbage and none of the printer formatting is
>preserved.
>
>I believe I'm just missing something syntactically.  Right now I'm
>connecting to the printer with smbclient and using the 'print' command.  The
>Samba setup is default.  I can't seem to find a 'print' switch to output raw
>printer data, nor can I get lpr or any other command to work.  What I
>eventually want is to create a command file that grabs a designated
>spoolfile from OUT.HPSPOOL and prints it via Samba.  If somebody can help me
>with syntax or suggest a better way to do this I would be extremely
>grateful.  I'm really an NT network admin with limited MPE/UNIX knowledge,
>and unfortunately the Samba/POSIX thing goes beyond the knowledge of our
>HP3000 operator & programmers!  TIA.
>
>--
>Kevin F. Conklin
>Remove NOSPAM to e-mail directly.
>
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You might think about our MPE spoolfile utility ESPUL. It is designed for
this task, understands MPE spoolfiles and printing expectations and will print
from MPE to/from NT systems as well as anything else you can come up with. If
you can't get Samba to do this dance, give us a call!
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