#PLOTTING TO LPT DEVICE
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IS IT POSSIBLE TO PLOT TO A LPT# DEVICE? I AM PRESENTLY INSTALLING A 3COM LAN
AND WOULD LIKE TO CONNECT MY PLOTTER TO THE SERVER FOR A SHARED DEVICE. 3COM
CAN DEFINE THE PLOTTER AS A SERIAL DEVICE THAT CONNECTS TO THE COM# PORT ON
THE SERVER, BUT WHEN ACCESSED FROM A REMOTE TERMINAL 3COM SOFTWARE EXPECTS A
LPT# DEVICE IF YOU KNOW OF ANYONE THAT IS USING A 3COM LAN WITH AUTOCAD
PLEASE PUT ME IN TOUCH WITH THEM. I CAN BE CONTACTED BY PHONE AT 813-381-2000
THANKS TOM KALEY 76077,3233
I have passed the message along to one of our net gurus.
Jamie
(PS/2 u Caps lock off please)
Tom-
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Why not plot to a file and then set up a background process to check
the queue directory? It could be as simple as an "endless loop"
TSR that checks for plot file existence and then does a COPY /B
PLOTFILE.EXT PRN, assuming that you do a 3P LINK PLOTTER or whatever
first…..PRN is PRN in this case, it just so happens that 3+ does
not care if PRN is really a parallel port or if it's serial…..so,
just set up the plotter as a "printer" hooked to COM1: on the server.
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(You may want to use a hardware spooler in-between to smooth out
the transfer; what mach. is your server? A 386/20 Mod 130 with TurboShare
and 2Mb EMS cache would probably not need to be buffered; but a 6mhz
AT server might cause a fast plotter to stop on occasion….)
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This can be as simple or as complex as you want, Tom…… send me
a note here if you need any more info. -don strimbu 😎
[3Com user since EtherSeries 2.2………]
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