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Should have explained better.. The client uses brand A software(UNIX based) and is switching to Brand B(Windows based), and does not want to deal with the vendors of Brand A. As the middleman, I need to get the client's data contents off Brand A to export to Brand B. This needs to be done on a one time basis only, and I figured this way would be the least painful.
I have searched for a utility to do this or a means to communicate with LPT1, but havn't had any luck.
>What software (if any) is currently being used to "glue" the Unix box(es) and PCs together, in your environment?
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>>The file eventually has to be used in the PC world. Not being familar with the UNIX environment or the application I want to get the data from, I thought the easiest way (Ha!) would be to trick the UNIX system into thinking it was sending the report to a printer while in fact it would be a PC reading the info and writing it to a file.:(
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>>>Just an idea...
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>>>Is there any compelling reason it has to be done in DOS/Win world? My understanding is that Unix has much better redirection support than DOS/Win. Ask the Unix admin to redirect the printer port to a file.
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>>>>Hi anybody know of a DOS or Windows utility to capture printer output from a UNIX system and writing the contents to a file?
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>>>>TIA
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