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October 1997, Week 5

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Glenn Cole <[log in to unmask]>
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[log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 31 Oct 1997 07:32:22 -0500627_US-ASCII >The problem as I see it is that you specify id=HPTCPJD in IOCONFIG, which
>(I assume) tells the spooler something like "When you query the printer
>via IP, it is going to send back HPTCPJD as an identifier" (Any IP gurus
>want to verify this for me?). I also assume that non-JetDirect cards will
>return some other identifier, or non at all. I'd like to a) find out
>what id is returned by non-JetDirect cards; and b) have IOCONFIG support
>this id. Right now, it seems that anything other than HPTCPJD results in
>***error*** This device is not supported. [...]44_31Oct199707:32:[log in to unmask]
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Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:29:56 -0800
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Michele Conant writes:
>      Is there any HP3000 'zip type' utility that is compatible with pkzip
>      on the PC?

and Chris Bartram responds:
> In the shell, gzip will compress, and gzip -d will decompress.
> Haven't done any interoperability tests, but it's worth a try.

Good call! I couldn't find a man page for gzip on an MPE/iX 5.0 system,
but HP-UX says, in part:

        The default extension is -gz for VMS, z for MSDOS, OS/2 FAT,
        Windows NT FAT and Atari.

Sounds like it has a chance!

--Glenn Cole
  Software al dente, Inc.
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