PR3287(1)PR3287(1)NAMEpr3287 - IBM host printing tool
SYNOPSISpr3287 [ options ] [[ LUname [, LUname ...]@] hostname [:
port ]]
DESCRIPTIONpr3287 opens a telnet connection to an IBM host, and emu
lates an IBM 3287 printer. It implements RFCs 2355
(TN3270E), 1576 (TN3270) and 1646 (LU name selection).
A specific LU name to use may be specified by prepending
it to the hostname with an `@'. Multiple LU names to try
can be separated by commas. An empty LU can be placed in
the list with an extra comma.
The port to connect to defaults to telnet. This can be
overridden by appending a port to the hostname with a
colon `:'.
OPTIONSpr3287 understands the following options:
-assoc LUname
Causes the session to be associated with the speci
fied LUname.
-blanklines
In LU3 formatted mode, print blank lines even if
they are all NULLs or control characters. (This is
a violation of the 3270 printer protocol, but some
hosts require it.)
-charset name
Specifies an alternate EBCDIC-to-ASCII mapping.
The default maps the EBCDIC U.S. English character
set to ISO 8859-1. Other built-in character sets
are bracket, which corresponds to many older IBM
hosts' mapping of the [ and ] characters, and the
non-U.S. character sets german, finnish, uk, norwe
gian, french, icelandic and belgian. These corre
spond to the x3270 character sets of the same
names.
If name begins with an @, then the balance is
intepreted as the name of a file containing charac
ter mappings. The file contains whitespace-sepa
rated tokens. Each token is a number specifying an
EBCDIC code, an = character, and a number specify
ing the 8-bit ASCII character used to print that
code. Blank lines and lines beginning with # are
ignored.
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If name begins with an =, then the balance is
intepreted as a string containing mapping tokens,
as in a file.
For example, a file defining the uk character set
would look like this:
# UK character set
0x4a=0x24 0x5b=0xa3 0xa1=0xaf
0xb0=0xa2 0xb1=0x5b 0xba=0x5e
0xbc=0x7e
-command command
Specifies the command to run for each print job.
The default is lpr.
-daemon
Causes pr3287 to become a daemon (background) pro
cess.
-reconnect
Causes pr3287 to reconnect to the host, whenever
the connection is broken. There is a 5-second
delay between reconnect attempts, to reduce network
thrashing for down or misconfigured hosts.
-trace Turns on data stream tracing. Trace information is
saved in the file /tmp/x3trc.pid.
SEE ALSOx3270(1), telnet(1), tn3270(1)
Data Stream Programmer's Reference, IBM GA23-0059
Character Set Reference, IBM GA27-3831
RFC 1576, TN3270 Current Practices
RFC 1646, TN3270 Extensions for LUname and Printer Selec
tion
RFC 2355, TN3270 Enhancements
COPYRIGHTS
Modifications Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997,
1999, 2000, 2001 ,by Paul Mattes.
Original X11 Port Copyright 1990 by Jeff Sparkes.
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute
this software and its documentation for any purpose
and without fee is hereby granted, provided that
the above copyright notice appear in all copies and
that both that copyright notice and this permission
notice appear in supporting documentation.
Copyright 1989 by Georgia Tech Research Corporation,
Atlanta, GA 30332.
All Rights Reserved. GTRC hereby grants public use
of this software. Derivative works based on this
software must incorporate this copyright notice.
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