In reply to Jeff Kell's comment....
I should have been more detailed...

A few of our users work from home and dial into the "network" to
communicate with our HP3000 and NetWare 4.11 via TCP/IP for the 3000 and
IPX/SPX for NetWare.  I like the way the JetDiect prints over TCP/IP with
the 3000 and thought that might be "easy" to emulate.  I had not thought
about the LPR/LPD option and will probably try that.  Is anybody working
on a port of LPR/LPD for the 3000?  (Free is sometimes better)

Thanks for the reply
Steve Murphy

 -----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Kell
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 1998 4:46 PM
To: Murphy, Steve; [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Software Emulation of HP


Murphy, Steve wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of any Windows emulation software that will Emulate
> an HPJetdirect Card for attached (slave) printers?  This should be
> something that WRQ or Minisoft should be able to do.....

Not so sure that's what you want...

> I am looking for an easy way for a remote (dialin) user to the Network
> to spool HP3000 reports to an attached printer.

By "dialin" do you mean they are serially connected in traditional
dialup fashion, or they are using dialup SLIP/PPP (network) connection?
If the former, you don't want a JetDirect emulator since it is designed
for network connections.  There are several contributed programs that
can print on an attached printer (WRQ/Minisoft both support the slave
printer functionality of HP terminals) as well as various third-party
solutions for this (Vista?).

If you do mean network, a more suitable answer would be one of the
third-party products that provides lpr/lpd functionality on the 3000
such as ESPUL (or wait and hope somebody ports lpr/lpd, I seem to recall
some mention of one or the other).  With that in place, there are
shareware LPD services for Windows (3.1 and 95), as well as WRQ's TCP
services which has lpr/lpd included.

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
> Any Idea's??
>
> Thanks
> Steve Murphy
> Salem Division
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