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From: dds@spsd.uu.net (Dennis D. Sherod)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Termservers for printers (How to?)
Message-ID: <7130@spsd.uu.net>
Date: 10 Aug 89 06:03:59 GMT
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Organization: Data General SPSD, Santa Ana, CA
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Our shop is expecting some 3COM CS-210 termservers shortly and
I have a question on their use for output devices.

Of course its obvious the operation of termservers for directly
connected terminals and dial-in modems and the like.  It seems
likely that they will be just as useful for printers and dial-out
modems, but it doesn't seem so obvious how this can be accomplished
using the pseudo-tty's.

Am I missing something?  How would one associate a ttyp?? with a
particular port on a specific termserver?  The purchase of the CS210's
was not predicated on the strict use for output only devices, but
it would be nice to be able to completely eliminate the host based
async.
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