Listing Network Printers

To display a network printer entry, select listnetprinter  from the Network Printer Administration menu. You will see the following prompts:

  1. Do you wish to list a Reality Release 4.x network printer [y/n]:

    • To display a printer entry for RealityX Release 4.0 or later, or Reality on UNIX, enter y.

    • To display any other type of printer entry, enter n  and go to step 3 below.

  2. REALROOT not set.  REALROOT [absolute path]:

    This prompt is only displayed if the environment variable REALROOT is not set. Enter the absolute pathname for REALROOT (refer to your Reality documentation for details).

  3. A list of network printers is then displayed:

    The following network printers are currently installed:
    
    name
    name
    name
    Enter the network printer name [<return> for all]:

    Enter the name of the required printer or press RETURN to display information about all the network printers.

The following shows a typical Reality entry:

Printer: PEG1
        Type                 : Reality
        Destination          : HQ
        Shared               : yes
        Connect retries      : 5
        Retry interval       : 20 seconds
        Press any key to continue

The following shows a typical UNIX entry:

Printer: lp5
        Type                 : UNIX lp
        Destination          : ptr.tcp
        Shared               : yes
        Connect retries      : 10 
        Retry interval       : 15 seconds
        Character mapping    : yes, with definition:-
                /user0/petes/map_file:printer1
        Prologue data        : none
        Banner information   : yes, with:-
                Job Id
                Time & Date
                File Name(s)
                User Id
        End of job formfeeds : 1
        Press any key to continue