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>I'm able to print from my SCO machine to the NT counterpart (sp3).  The
>problem is that any document containing control code is printing the
>control code instead of interpreting them.

>The NT machine is telling me that the SCO machine transfer the document in
>TEXT mode where it should be (is assume) in RAW mode.  If I force RAW mode
>on the NT machine, any printing from SCO is stopped.

>Where can I force the SCO machine to transfer in RAW mode?

>Thanks in advance.

>-Stephane

This reminds me of another issue related to LPD printing; if fact
(AFAIK) SCO's lpd is unable to process remote job sent either in
'verbose' or 'raw' mode (this has been confirmed a while ago by
a SCO's techie). On the other side, I think SCO's lpd (client) always
sends print job in text mode (there is a flag in the control file
- which the client sends to the server along with the data stream -
always set to 'text' mode).

I had the chance to play with some LPD servers for Windows and
they had the options to elaborate remote print jobs without taking
care of the above mentionned flag (read, send it to the printer in
raw mode or elaborate it in order to escape control sequences).

If you're interested, I could send to you a little rlp client program
which operates without the intervention of the underlying spooler
which has the option to set the flag in raw/text mode.

Drop me a line so I could arrange this for your needs.

Best,
Roberto

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(1). Get an HP Jet direct card and use TCP/IP to print to the printers
directly.

(2). You can modify the
/usr/spool/lp/admins/lp/interfaces/printer_name file and change the
line that states the file to be sent in "raw" mode rather than
"cooked" mode.  For HP printers, it is around line 250 I belive.

Example:

# Initialize option variables to default values
length="def"
pitch="def"
spitch="def"
hsi="def"
quality="def"
squality="def"
spacing="def"
sspacing="def"
lpi="def"
vsi="def"
charset="def"
scharset="def"
height="def"
sheight="def"        
sweight="def"
pagelen="def"
tpagelen="def"
lmargin="def"
rmargin="def"
outputmode="cooked" <-- CHANGE THIS to  outputmode="raw"
banner="yes"
orientation="def"
pagemode="def"
nroff=""
italics=""
duplex=""
format=""

# Determine which options have been invoked