From my V7 Freeware contribution README, written 16-Nov-2004:

Drain-Printer, TOOLS, Capture a print stream into a file

When OpenVMS is used as a print server, text printouts flow right through on their way to an actual printer. There are times an electronic copy of the printout would be useful. This program acts as a virtual printer and captures the print stream into a text file instead of sending it to a physical printer.

Drain-Printer is an expansion on an older program by Aaron Leonard; the first copy I found was called DRAIN_TO_FILE and was posted to comp.os.vms on November 11, 1997 under "SUBJ: Re: Multinet LPD Queue to File?" (and also to vmsnet.sysmgt on October 10, 1997).

Drain-Printer is written in C and was developed for the Multinet TCP/IP package; it may require modifications to work with another stack; see AAA_README.TXT, SETUP_DETAILS.TXT and the included source code for more information and setup details.

The Freeware ZIP is here (104kb; 208 VMS blocks)

The ZIP contains some pre-built OBJs and these files:

aaa_readme.txt
freeware_readme.txt (the above text)
kit_contents.txt
setup_details.txt

I later added to my FTP site:

changes.txt
drain.c (the source program itself in C)

Back to the WVNET FTP server menu or the main WVNET VMS page

 

Verne Britton, Lead Systems Programmer, WVNET
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