LP5250D(1)LP5250D(1)NAMElp5250d - start an AS/400 printer session
SYNOPSISlp5250d [OPTIONS] host[:port]
lp5250d-version
DESCRIPTIONlp5250d connects to an AS/400 over TCP/IP and provides a printer ses‐
sion emulating an IBM 3812 printer. The printer session works with
scs2ascii and host print transform on the AS/400 to print AS/400
spooled files on a local printer.
To end a printer session, send it a SIGTERM signal with kill(1).
Printing support requires named session support, which is available for
most recent versions of OS/400, but is only supplied with V4R3 and
later versions. For V3R2, V3R7, V4R1 and V4R2, please see informa‐
tional APAR II10918.
OPTIONS
trace=FILE
Log all lp5250d actions to tracefile. This file will get very
large.
map=CCSID
Set the translation table between ASCII and EBCDIC. This should
match the normal CCSID of the AS/400. The default for lp5250d
is 37.
See Translation Maps in tn5250(1) for a list of supported val‐
ues.
env.DEVNAME=NAME
Set the device name for the AS/400 to assign to the 5250 ses‐
sion. This should be up to ten characters long and consist of
only letters and numbers. It will be converted to uppercase and
used as the name of the 5250-compatible device on the AS/400.
There may only be one session active with any given name at one
time.
outputcommand=COMMAND
Set the command that will be receive printer output. The
default command is `scs2ascii |lpr'.
env.IBMMFRTYPMDL=NAME
Set the name of the host print transform description to use on
the AS/400. This is the same as the MFRTYPMDL parameter on the
CRTDEVPRT command. See the CL Reference or the online help for
a list of valid values.
env.VARIABLE=VALUE
Set any other environment variables controlling the printer ses‐
sion. A list of relevant variables is given in section 7 of
RFC2877. More generally, the variables are the parameters of
the CRTDEVPRT command, with a prefix of IBM.
-version
Display the version of lp5250d and exit.
EXAMPLESlp5250d env.DEVNAME=LINPRT1 env.IBMMFRTYPMDL='*HP4' as400sys
Connect to as400sys as the printer LINPRT1, using host print
transform on the AS/400 to print to an HP Laserjet or compatible
using lpr.
lp5250d env.DEVNAME=LINPRT1 env.IBMMFRTYPMDL='*OKI184IBM' outputcom‐
mand=''scs2ascii | lpr -Poki' as400sys
Print to an Okidata Microline 184 Turbo on the local print queue
named `oki'.
lp5250d env.DEVNAME=PSPRT outputcommand='scs2ps > scs$$.ps' as400sys
Convert spooled files info PostScript® files.
BUGS
Please report any bugs you find to the bug tracker or to the linux5250
mailing list. See the tn5250 web site for more details.
SEE ALSOtn5250(1), scs2ascii(1), scs2ps(1), http://tn5250.sourceforge.net/,
RFC1205, RFC2877, II10918.
COPYRIGHT
tn5250 is copyright 1997 - 2001 Michael Madore. This manpage is copy‐
right 1999 - 2001 Carey Evans.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER‐
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser
General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
USA
TRADEMARKS
PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Sysems Incorporated.
AUTHORS
tn5250 was written by Michael Madore, Jay Felice and others; see the
AUTHORS file for details. This manual page was written by Carey Evans.
30 Aug 2001 LP5250D(1)
