Chapter | 5 | Configuring the Internal Ethernet Adapter for TCP/IP |
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Configuring the Internal Ethernet Adapter for TCP/IP
The Compaq line matrix printer has an Internal Ethernet Adapter installed and will be referred to as such for the remainder of the chapter. This section is exclusively devoted to the configuration of the Internal Ethernet Adapter.
If you are setting up the Internal Ethernet Adapter in a TCP/IP environment, this section will help you in all aspects of the setup process. The provided host software is introduced and steps are given for configuring the Internal Ethernet Adapter for communications over the network and for printing. Since TCP/IP encompasses a wide variety of system types, the most common are covered in detail to help get you printing in a TCP/IP environment.
Host Software
The TCP/IP software provided includes two setup programs, source code, interface files, and various
•onlcr for carriage return insertion
•banner for banner page generation
•chr for echoing ASCII characters and strings to standard output
•npscramble for print job scrambling
•npd for bidirectional communication when printing
•npwrite for direct socket printing
chr is the only mandatory binary when using one of the interface scrips for printing. The extra processing binaries (onlcr, banner) can be configured from the host, or they can each be set on the Internal Ethernet Adapter, alleviating the host of these extra tasks.
NOTE: To be utilized on a host, they must be used in conjunction with an interface file.
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