PC's as UNIX Terminals with Remote

[tawab at net4.UUCP]

/* Written 1:10 am  Oct  8, 1989 by pjh at mccc.UUCP in net4:comp.unix.questions */
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>Hello, networld!  Next semester, I will be replacing all the terminals
>on my 3B2/400 with Zenith (Bull?) ATs.  UNIX and C classes will use the
>ATs as terminals, but MSDOS applications classes will use them as
>stand-alone PCs.  

>The 3B2 has the only printer in the lab connected to tty55.  I would
>like the MSDOS people to be able to send files to that printer without
>having to learn how to log in to a Unix system.  I'm open to every level
>of suggestion.  That is, I would like a Pascal programmer to be able to do

>	C:\TP> lp example3.pas
	
>and have that file be printed by the 3B2.

>Thanks.
>-- 
>Pete Holsberg                UUCP: {...!rutgers!}princeton!mccc!pjh

We have the our at's connected via ethernet adn so we have ftp.
what to do? ==>

ms-dos:
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write a procedure in ms-dos, to send a file to the unix-machine
in a directory (ex: /usr/spool/request/at).

unix:
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enter a line in the crontab to lookup every 5 min. if a file is in 
/usr/spool/lp/request/at, and then call the lp-command to print that file[s].

useing ftp is easy.
There must be a way to transmit file within your treminal emulation on ms-dos.
hope I gave you an idea, robin.
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