Printing using DECnet: Ultrix <--> VMS

dave barrett dbb at riscy.enet.dec.com
Wed Oct 3 10:57:21 AEST 1990


In article <195 at opus.NMSU.Edu> bemery at nmsu.edu (Bryan Emery) writes:
>We have a DECstation running Ultrix and a MicroVAX II running VMS, both
>running DECnet.  DEC tells me it should be possible to print directly from
>one to the printers accessible by the other directly.  Does anyone know how
>to do this?  They tell me I don't need additional software, either.  But,
>my DECnet manuals don't say much about anything except using COPY or dcp.
>
>I would greatly appreciate any suggestions, pointers, etc.  THANKS!!
>
>Bryan Emery
>Graduate Student
>New Mexico State University
                                                                           
A quick man on dcp yields as the second option dcp -P, which prints on
the default printer on the remote system.  I use this all the time - 
works great!!                                                        
                                                                         
                                                                        
                                                                          
	David Barrett
                                                                         
	dbb at riscy.enet.dec.com
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