Specifications

RW-470 PLOTCLIENT FTP
136 RW-470 CLIENTS
Print jobs on UNIX using ftp
If you have entered all the settings described above, you can use
the ftp command as follows to send print jobs to the RW-470
PLOTBASE via RW-470 WINPRINT:
1. Open the prompt on the UNIX computer.
2. Change to the folder containing the files to be printed.
3. Enter the command “ftp [computer name
or computer-IP]“.
The system changes to the ftp subsystem and sets up a net-
work link to the required computer.
4. You are now asked for the name of the user. Enter “anony-
mous“ and confirm with the return key.
5. Confirm the password query by simply not entering a pass-
word.
6. Now enter the “binary” command for transmission in binary
mode and confirm with the return key.
7. Enter the following command if you want to print a file. If
you want to print several files, proceed with Item 8. For one
file, the command is:
put <filename>
= put graphics.tif
8. If you want to print several files at once, enter the following
command:
mput <filename> <filename> ...
= mput graphics.tif city.plt
9. If a file comes from another folder than the current folder,
enter the path as well as the file name, as shown in the fol-
lowing:
mput <filename> <path>\<filename>
= mput graphics.tif tmp\city.plt
If you send a file without print parameters to RW-470 PLOTBASE,
the RW-470 PLOTBASE basic settings are used. If you want to
send your own print parameters with the plot, you have to first