Make Cloverleaf look like a Printer

[Jeff Egan]

I have an application that CANNOT print to a file.

Can I print to a port on the engine and have the engine receive the print job, put the text into a message and send the message on to the outbound thread?

The outbound thread would likely then be configured with the fileset ftp protocol and put the message to a file.

Thanks for the help.

Jeff Egan

CHRISTUS Health

Houston, TX

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[David Harrison]

Yes you can, but how you achieve it depends on what os your print job is coming from and what os Cloverleaf is running on.

We have a PAS running on Tru64 unix and I need to form HL7 messages from data only available from a printed report.

I set up a remote lpr/lpd printer on my Cloverleaf box running Solaris 8 and configured it just to save to a file. Then I set up a PAS print queue to print to the remote printer on Solaris.

If this is relevant to you, let me know and I

[Jeff Egan]

Thanks Dave.  This sounds like a much better idea.  Yes, please tell me more.

The print job will be coming from Windows (2003, I think) and we run Cloverleaf on HPUX, “soon” to be running on Linux.

Do you have problems with print jobs coming too quickly and writing over a previous file or combining who prints into one file?

Thanks for the help.

Jeff Egan

CHRISTUS Health

Houston, TX

[David Harrison]

Jeff,

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