[K12OSN] Local printer and console printing
Shawn Austin
austinsr at uindy.edu
Mon Mar 22 13:13:09 UTC 2004
Im trying to do a print screen type thing to a local printer attached to
the thin client that is ssh'd to a VMS box. I don't need to do any
printing through the VMS box, I want that done locally through a local
printer on the thin client.
So far I have found out that you can cat /dev/vcsa1 to output the
contents of virtual terminal 1.
The best solution that I can come up with is to cat the content of
/dev/vcsa1 and dump the content in a directory that the server can
access, and then have cron do a lpr -P localprinter on all the files in
the directory every 30 seconds or so.
Im currently trying to figure out how to bind the Print screen key to a
shell script that will output the contents of that virtual terminal to
the printing directory so cron can do its thing.
Thanks for the reply.
Shawn
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 16:59, Petre Scheie wrote:
> My VMS is pretty rusty, but don't you need to define the printer on the VAX in
> order for it to talk to the printer, whether the printer is connected to the
> LTSP client or otherwise? In other words, how does the VAX print to any other
> printers on the network? Or does it just print to locally attached (serial)
> printers?
>
> Petre
>
> Shawn Austin wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am trying to get a local printer to print from a console(no X), and I
> > have reached a bit of a road block.
> >
> > I have already setup the printer using CUPS, and I have seen a message
> > on the console of the station that shows cups is monitoring the printer
> > port on the machine.
> >
> > I have already printed a test page from CUPS sucessfully.
> >
> >
> > This is the machine entry from the lts.conf file.
> > [Reg-term]
> > SCREEN_01 = ssh
> > SSH_HOST = XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (edited out)
> > LOCAL_APPS = N
> > USE_NFS_SWAP = N
> > SWAPFILE_SIZE = 48m
> > PRINTER_0_DEVICE = /dev/lp0
> > PRINTER_0_TYPE = P
> >
> > What I am trying to do is connect to a VAX box that runs our student
> > information system and print from something that looks like a curses
> > based application(not sure is VAX uses curses or not, but it looks
> > similar).
> >
> > I was hoping that just the Printscrn button on the keyboard would work,
> > but it doesn't. I have also tried every conceviable combination of
> > shift alt and ctrl with the printscrn button.
> >
> > I have googled for quit a while now and have come up with nothing
> > useful. Hopefully someone will have done this before, and has a
> > sollution, or at least a point in the right direction.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Shawn Austin
> >
> > University of Indianapolis
> > Client Services
> >
> >
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