Adding plotter support with 5080

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A procedure for adding plotter support is described.

  • The plotter must be physically attached to your system.
  • The plotter device must have already been added.

Use the following procedure to add plotter support. The 5080 Attachment Adapter plotter backend is accessible with the enq command after you use this procedure to identify the plotters:

  1. At the system prompt, type: smit pq_mklque
  2. At the NAME of Queue to Add prompt, type: plta
    to define serial port a.
  3. At the NAME of Device to Add prompt, type: plota
    to define serial port a.
  4. For BACKEND PROGRAM Pathname, type: /usr/lib/lpd/plotgbe -gswa 9600.
  5. At the NAME of Queue to Add prompt, type: 
    pltb
    to define serial port b.
  6. At the NAME of Queue to Add prompt, type: pltb
    to define serial port b.
  7. For BACKEND PROGRAM Pathname, type: /usr/lib/lpd/plotgbe -gswa 9600
  8. Attach the plotter to either port a or port b.

You can also perform this task with the mkque and mkquedev commands. Additional flags are required to add plotter support. See the mkque and mkquedev commands for more information.