Listing Network Printers
To display a network printer entry, select
listnetprinter
from the
Network Printer Administration menu. You will see the following
prompts:
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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
nand go to step 3 below.
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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).
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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