Tom,

My favorite method is to configure a dummy ldev 6 as a network printer.

io> MD 6;id=hptcpjd;class=LP;path=none

It doesn't require an HPIB or SCSI address and satisfies the output device
for ldev 10 with device class LP.

Doug.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Hula <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 10:59 AM
Subject: SYSGEN and LP


> I now have my two 2563A printers attached to DTC serial ports instead of
> HP-IB
> and that is working fine.  I would like to remove the old printer
> devices (5 & 6).
> I tried setting up my new printer as class LP and wasn't surprised to
> find that
> SYSGEN only recognized device 6 as LP, since each entire DTC is
> recognized
> as a single device in Sysgen, so I couldn't delete device 6, since it
> was the "only"
> device assigned to class LP ... even though I can do a showdev LP and
> see
> both 6 and 106 (the DTC port) assigned to LP.
>
> I'm thinking I have to add a path and pseudo device in Sysgen to assign
> to
> class LP and then Sysgen would let me remove the HP-IB devices and
> associated paths.  But how would I go about adding that pseudo device?
> Does it matter what the path number is?
> And is that the correct solution?  Is there a more elegant one?
> TIA
>
>
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>
>         Tom Hula
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