From: rchui@nswc-wo.nswc.navy.mil (Raymond Chui)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps,comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: A Wonderful Question
Date: 13 Nov 92 17:24:56 GMT
Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center - White Oak

Thank you to all people who responsed my question.

From: A. Kardanev <kardanev@hanoi.cern.ch>
Hi, Raymond!
You didn't described your X-term, so I can tell you about what we have.
We have NCD15 X-terminal with serial port. We connected to this port 
Usual postscript printer with serial interface. With NCD15 it was coming
to us some software, were ther was a programm for support this configuration
for printing postscript files. So, check software wich comes to you
with your X-terminal. It is easy to install and to use.
Hope this helps.

Hi, Raymond!
I talked about:
(From "NCDware 2.3 X Server User's Manual", Chapter 3: Procedures;
The Auxiliary Serial Port.)
"Sources for a sample application are provided on all UNIX system distribution
tapes provided by NCD."
Unfortunatly, I can not point you on its exact name. But I know, that all
software come to us with X terminals. It include:
Boot file for NCD terminal;
Font directory for NCD terminals;
Utilities for NCD terminal (they included utilities for printer, font make
utilities and some others). May be you bought not full configuration. I don't 
know...
But you can try to ask about NCD printer software from:
support@ncd.com or call technical support at (415)694-0650.
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From: John D. Reading <readingj@CERF.NET>
Of course, that answer to your question probably depends on
exactly which X server you have.  However,  my HP19c has instructions
on how to do this in the user's manual.  I haven't ever tried it, 
although I have thought about it.  If you have an HP X terminal
and no manual, let me know, and I can probably send you out the
pertinent section.
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From: someone I know
d) And now for the answer that we have all been waiting for:  The ncd
tape contains a program which can print to the serial port of an ncd.
Basicly you sent up your ncd's serial port's usage to "Printer
Daemon" (something like that).  The program sends data to the ncd's tcp
port 87 (well know service 'link').  You can even "$ telnet your_ncd 87".
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From: Pekka.Nikander@ajk.tele.fi
NDC ships printing software with their terminals.  We have used it
with SunOS4.1.1 but I don't remember the details any more.
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From: stanka@storm.wv.tek.com (Stan Kalinowski)
It depends on what brand of X terminal you are using.  Tektronix X
terminals have a feature called net-to-serial that can be used for
this purpose.
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>From NCD tape you can that print-daemon source codes, you can
download to your system, compiling and follow the instructions
from README READMORE files for installation.

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