transparent / pass-through printing

[rumblestiltskin]

Hello, I'm using sco unix 5.0.5 open server, have some wyse50 terminals trying to get pass through printing to work, already got close, using a executable script in
/usr/bin

it's code

tput mc5=^R
cat $*
tput mc4=^T

the ^R is to open pass through printing
the ^T is to close it
got this off another site address below

http://www.anzio.com/support/whitepapers/printguide.htm

but, still nothing, anyone happen to have an example or comment about this

thanks
j

 

[crowe]

looks like you need to pass your script a filename. So if your script is called passthrough.sh, here woul be the syntax.

# ./passthrough.sh /etc/hosts

this should print the /etc/hosts file to the printer port on the terminal you execute this from.

crowe