This reply could be considered a <plug>, but I think it is worth stating. A few years ago we wrote a spooler for MPE that will enable full blown page level recovery in a mixed host/protocol environment eg Novell/Unix/NT/HP3000/PCdirect. It will even track electronic forms in the printer so that even if a PC or NT blows away the electronic form, our spooler makes sure that it is always there. To obtain more info visit www.smm.co.uk I have enclosed the two e-mails that prompted my response Incidentally we provide print stream solutions for MacroWarehouse Europe > ---------- > From: Johnson Joshua[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: 21 May 1998 15:22 > To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] > Subject: RE: Network printing > > Marco Santerre > [log in to unmask] > Canadian National Railways > > Maybe one of you can help with this one. I know we have talked in > length about network printing but I just finally upgraded my systems > to > 5.5 PP4. I wanted to start installing Network printing on my > machines.. > unfortunately, when I follow instructions it doesn't work. The reason > is I don't use JetDirect cards as most of our network printers are on > Banyan LAN also. So, instead of using JetDirect cards, my company > elected to go with ExtendNet boxes. These boxes are SNMP compliant. > When I talked to HP RC, naturally, I was told that if I don't have a > JetDirect card, they can't help me. I hope that one of you have a > similar environment where you are not using a JetDirect box and could > help me in pointing out where to go next, or what to do next. > <snip> > > Yes there is something that you can do. It seems like HP is trying to > force > everyone to buy JetDirect boxes so they made it so that network > printing > from the 3000 only work with JetDirect boxes. However, they did > include a > undocumented feature that will allow network printing to work with > other > print server boxes. You must add a line to each devices config block > in the > NPCONFIG.PUB.SYS file. The only problem with this solution is that > this > option turn off all handshaking with the printer. If you use this > option the > 3000 will send the printer a raw stream of data until the spoolfile is > printed. This means that you could loose a part of or all of a spool > file if > the printer accepts the data and does not print anything. Also it will > not > support page level recovery so if you stop printing a spoolfile in the > middle it will reprint the entire spoolfile when you restart the > spooler. > Here is the big secret: > > snmp_enabled=FALSE > > Example of a device config block for a Intel NETXPORT server box: > > 3003 (network_address=???.???.???.??? > TCP_port_number=3001 > snmp_enabled=FALSE) > > > Hope this helps. > > > > Sincerely, > Joshua Johnson > Systems Manager > MicroWarehouse > Kirk Whelan SMM Software Ltd