[AccessD] Print and listening to an IP address

I have used this software to connect remote instrumentation packages to 
the Internet rather than
printers. It treats the Internet as one long serial cable.  If your 
printer is not connected to the LAN, you  might want to look at this. I 
believe it uses WinSock can't remember.

RS232 to TCP/IP Converter
http://www.taltech.com/TALtech_web/products/tcpcom.html

 By the way you can generally only connect to the printer driver not the 
physical printer ( well you could look at the pin signals from a PC so 
unless the printer driver informs you of  power condition or paper out, 
there is no other way to sense this. If that is what you are trying to do.


Wortz, Charles wrote:

> Mark,
>  
>  #1 Convert strPrintJob to a report and then set the default printer 
> of this report to the lan printer.
>  
> #2 Why do you want to listen for Ack/Nacks?  If the printer has a big 
> enough buffer for your report and the power doesn't go out, it will 
> eventually print the report.
>
> Charles Wortz
> Software Development Division
> Texas Education Agency
> 1701 N. Congress Ave
> Austin, TX 78701-1494
> 512-463-9493
> CWortz at tea.state.tx.us
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark L. Breen [mailto:subs at solution-providers.ie]
> Sent: Friday 2003 Apr 18 07:55
> To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: [AccessD] Print and listening to an IP address
>
> Hello All,
>  
> I have an application that previously printed to the LPT1 port on the 
> PC.  In my code, all I had to do was
>  
> Open "LPT1" For Output As #1
> Print #1, strPrintJob
> Close #1
>  
> We now want to use a new printer that is connected to the lan via an 
> ethernet card.  The printer is assigned an IP address and is listed in 
> the list of printers on my control panel.  It appears that it is not 
> possible to map my lpt1 to the printer.
>  
> What I think that I want to do is something like
>  
> Open 109.109.109.109 for output as #1
> Print #1, strPrintJob
> Close #1
>  
> So, question number one is "how to I sent text to an ip address"
>  
>  
> I then had a serial communications piece of code that listened to the 
> serial port and was able to verify that what was sent to the printer 
> was received back.  I was able to listen to the buffer on the 
> mscomm.ocx and pass that back to the database.
>  
> So question number two is "how do I listen to an ip address to hear 
> what is coming from it"
>  
> Thanks in advance for your help, I know that this quesion is a bit 
> vague, but fire a few questions back at me if you wish.
>  
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Mark