| 1 | .TH ASCOMM 8 "4 April 1994" "Adobe Systems" |
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| 2 | \" Copyright (c) 1994 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. |
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| 3 | \" ATTN GOVERNMENT END USERS: See notice of rights in file XPSLIBDIRX/Notice |
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| 4 | \" RCSID: $Header: /afs/dev.mit.edu/source/repository/third/transcript/man/ascomm.8p,v 1.1.1.1 1996-10-07 20:25:40 ghudson Exp $ |
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| 5 | .ds PS P\s-2OST\s+2S\s-2CRIPT\s+2 |
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| 6 | .ds TS T\s-2RAN\s+2S\s-2CRIPT\s+2 |
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| 7 | .SH NAME |
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| 8 | ascomm\(em\*(TS AppSocket TCP/IP communication filter for \*(PS printers |
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| 9 | .SH "SYNOPSIS" |
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| 10 | .B XPSLIBDIRX/ascomm |
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| 11 | .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
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| 12 | This is the low-level \*(TS AppSocket TCP/IP communication filter for use |
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| 13 | by the 4.2BSD line printer spooling system through the printer description |
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| 14 | file /etc/printcap, or by the System V spooling system. |
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| 15 | For 4.2BSD, it is called from the |
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| 16 | .I psint.sh |
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| 17 | shell script. This script uses argv[0] (the name it was invoked under) |
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| 18 | to determine which action to take, which may involve invoking a translation |
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| 19 | filter or management filter before invoking the communications filter. |
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| 20 | The options are as specified in the |
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| 21 | .I 4.2BSD Line Printer Spooler Manual. |
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| 22 | If a log file is specified in /etc/printcap, |
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| 23 | .ascomm |
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| 24 | will maintain a log of each job processed, as well as any error output from |
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| 25 | the printer. |
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| 26 | For System V, it is called from the |
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| 27 | .I psinterface |
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| 28 | shell script. |
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| 29 | The program |
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| 30 | .I ascomm |
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| 31 | is the lowest level filter. It manages communication with the printer, |
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| 32 | error handling, status reporting, etc. It also manages a printer log file |
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| 33 | named transcript/\fIprinter\fP-log (under the lp spooling directory). |
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| 34 | .SH ENVIRONMENT |
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| 35 | .IP VERBOSELOG=\fInumber\fP |
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| 36 | print verbose log messages |
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| 37 | .IP ASCONTROL=\fInumber\fP |
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| 38 | if 1, use AppSocket control protocol (default) |
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| 39 | .IP ASSTATUS=\fInumber\fP |
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| 40 | if 1, query status during job on status port (default) |
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| 41 | .br |
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| 42 | .SH FILES |
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| 43 | .TP 2.2i |
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| 44 | \fIprinter\fP.acct |
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| 45 | printer accounting file (4.2BSD) |
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| 46 | .TP 2.2i |
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| 47 | \fIprinter\fP-log |
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| 48 | printer log file |
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| 49 | .TP 2.2i |
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| 50 | status |
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| 51 | printer status file (in the spool directory), shared by |
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| 52 | .I lpd(8) |
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| 53 | and |
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| 54 | .I ascomm |
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| 55 | (4.2BSD) |
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| 56 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
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| 57 | lpr(1), lpc(8), lpd(8), printcap(5), psint(8) (4.2BSD) |
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| 58 | .br |
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| 59 | lp(1), lpstat(1), lpsched(1M), lpadmin(1M), psinterface(8) (SysV) |
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| 60 | .br |
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| 61 | transcript(1) |
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| 62 | .br |
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| 63 | .I 4.2BSD Line Printer Spooler Manual |
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| 64 | .br |
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| 65 | .I System V Line Printer Spooling Utilities |
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| 66 | .SH AUTHOR |
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| 67 | Adobe Systems Incorporated |
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| 68 | .SH NOTES |
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| 69 | To use ascomm to communicate with HP printers via TCP/IP, set both |
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| 70 | ASCONTROL and ASSTATUS to 0 (in the .options or \fIprinter\fP.opt files.) |
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| 71 | .br |
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| 72 | \*(PS is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. |
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| 73 | .br |
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| 74 | \*(TS is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. |
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| 75 | .br |
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| 76 | Unix is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories. |
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| 77 | |
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