User`s manual

CN2510 User’s Manual Setting Up Printer
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Setting up Unix Hosts
UNIX uses the RLP program for remote parallel printing. For serial printing, Moxa provides the
asprint utility program, which consists of two files, asprint.c and asprint.mak. First
uncompress printer.tar.Z to the \printer directory, and then locate the files
asprint.c and asprint.mak. To compile and link, you may need to modify the source file
asprint.c. For instance, in SCO UNIX you must link to the libnls.a library, in Solaris to
libnsl.a, and in Venix to the libnsl_s.a.
Setting up a SCO Unix Host
Steps SCO UNIX Command Description
Uncompress all programs #uncompress print.tar.Z
Uncompress printer.tar.Z
to ./printer
#tar xvf printer.tar
compile/link #make -f sco_unix.mak
make printer node #mknod /dev/iop1 p Create a unique pipe name for each
printer group. Since there are 16 groups
of TCP port numbers (from 2048 to
2063), you need to create 16 respective
pipe names. For example: iop1, iop2,
iop3, etc.
set it to printer #chown lp /dev/iop1 Change the pipe owner to 1p
set rw #chmod 600 /dev/iop1 Change access permission to 600 or
rw-----
set printer name #/usr/lib/lpadmin
-pLaser1 -v/dev/iop1
Redirect the printer spooler to write to
pipe ‘iop1’. Assumes the printer name is
Laser1.
execute asprint for Group 01 #./asprint /dev/iop1
‘CN2510 IP address’
2048 &
Start ‘asprint’ utility to read from pipe
‘iop1’ and write to the CN2510 printer
port.
‘/dev/iop1’: the device name the spooler
is writing to.
‘CN2510’: the host name of the CN2510
as defined in /etc/hosts, or its IP address.
‘2048’: the TCP port number (Group01)
of the printer port on the CN2510.
accept printer Laser1 #/usr/lib/accept Laser1 Set Laser 1 to accept print request.
enable Laser1 #enable Laser1 enable Laser1
print file to Laser1 #lp -dLaser1 file_name send print job to the CN2510
Repeat Repeat the above steps to set up another
printer. For printers in the same group, it
is not necessary to repeat every step.