"Craig M. Lalley" wrote:

> What if? I wanted to take a spoolfile from one HP3000 and print it on
> another HP3000.
>
> Let's make it interesting.
>
> There are no NS Services i.e. DSCOPY.  FTP and WRQ are fair game.

if you've got ftp between the two 3000s then most of the 'battle' has been
'won'....

> How does the file get "attached" to the SPOOLER?

i wrote a script (everyone say 'duh' :-) to do this sometime ago.  it uses
dscopy....but it's only a transport method.  there'd be a bit more
'twiddling' to make it work with ftp....something along the lines of 'site
stream'....but no deep magic (imo).

the notable 'highlights' from this script are -- 'inventing' a name for
$stdlists (not too difficult....just construct a name from hptimef);
remembering to 'get rid' of the spoolfile on the sending system (unless you
really want it laying about :-); and getting it spooled on the receiving
system.  to do that, i did:

remote spoolf !_ps_fname;print;dev=!dev;pri=!pri;copies=!copies

(all the ci variables are properly initialized, of course)

in this case, if there is no dscopy, that's where the 'site stream' business
comes into play.  you could always construct a listener process on the
receiving machine that watches a predetermined location for files.  the task
becomes marginally more difficult if you want to support multiple print
devices, priorities and copies.                - d

--
Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguished from magic.
   - Aurthur Clarke

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