Bonnie Roman wrote in message ...
>Hi Gang,
>
>I have a question, we're currently replacing our HP-IB printer ldev 6 with
a
>network printer.
>
>Is it possible to configure ldev 6 in ioconfig and assign an IP address via
>npconfig just like you would on a regular network printer or is it
different? If
>so, what's the best approach?
>
>TIA
>Bonnie
>

Hi Bonnie

While I don't know if this is recommended or not, I have done this to both
of our HP3000s.

(1) I made sure that I knew what I was doing by setting up another LDEV as a
network printer using SYSGEN & NPCONFIG, as described in "Native Mode
Spooler Reference Manual".

(2) When I was happy that it worked, I modified LDEV 6 in a similar manner.

(3) My script for shutting down network services includes the command
"SPOOLER DEV=LP ;STOP;OPENQ". When NS is started, "SPOOLER DEV=LP;START".

HTH

Campbell Fethers
Systems Manager
CANNEX (Aust) Pty Ltd