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1.13 mvEnterprise Line Printer Driver Program

The program pick.lpd, which is located on the release tape with the mvEnterprise monitor and install programs, is useful for sites which operate multiple mvEnterprise machines. The driver allows a machine access to the UNIX spooler; therefore, two machines can share a printer since they are both outputting through the same physical device. An example of starting the line printer driver using a local print spooler queue for a serially-attached Hewlett-Packard LaserJet III follows:

1.Invoke smit (the System Management Interactive Tool) by typing smit from an AIX command shell. (Note that you must have root user privileges to execute this program).

For more information on smit, AIX provides online documentation for its commands using the standard UNIX man facility. The hypertext files used by man are normally located on a CD-ROM supplied with the system. Refer to the AIX documentation to learn how to mount the CD-ROM as a file system and access the man pages.

2.Select the option Print Spooling by using the cursor movement keys to move the highlight bar to the correct position. Press the Enter key.

3.Select Add Print Queue.

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