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Contents
Name
Synopsis
Description
Options
Environment
Proxy
See Also
Copyrights
Version
Name
wpr3287 -
IBM
host printing tool
Synopsis
wpr3287
[options] [L:][Y:][LUname[,LUname...]@]hostname[:port][=accept]
Description
wpr3287
opens a telnet connection to an
IBM
host, and emulates an IBM 3287 printer.
It implements RFCs 2355 (TN3270E), 1576 (TN3270) and 1646 (LU name selection).
If the hostname is prefixed with L:, the connection will be made
through an SSL/TLS tunnel.
If the hostname is also prefixed with Y:, the host's SSL/TLS
certificate will not be checked.
wpr3287 also supports TELNET START-TLS option negotiation without any
need for command-line options.
A specific LU name to use may be specified by prepending it to the
hostname
with an
`@'.
Multiple LU names to try can be separated by commas.
An empty LU can be placed in the list with an extra comma.
The port to connect to defaults to
telnet.
This can be overridden by appending a
port
to the
hostname
with a colon
`:'.
An accept name (a name to compare to the host's SSL/TLS certificate) may be
specified by appending it with an equals sign.
Options
wpr3287
understands the following options:
- -accepthostname name
-
Specifies a particular hostname to accept when validating the name presented
in the server SSL certificate, instead of comparing to the name
used to make the connection.
- -assoc LUname
-
Causes the session to be associated with the specified
LUname.
- -blanklines
-
In LU3 formatted mode, print blank lines even if they are all NULLs or control
characters.
(This is a violation of the 3270 printer protocol, but some hosts require it.)
- -clientcert name
-
Specifies the name of a client certificate to provide to the host. It must be
in the Personal certificate store.
- -charset name
-
Specifies an alternate host code page (input EBCDIC mapping).
The default maps the U.S. English (037) code page to the
the system ANSI code page (unless overridden by the -printercp option).
wpr3287 generally supports the same host character sets as
wc3270.
- -nocrlf
-
Causes newline characters in the output to be left as-is, and not expanded to
carriage-return/linefeed sequences.
- -crthru
-
In unformatted 3270 mode, causes EBCDIC CR orders to be passed to
directly to the printer as ASCII CR characters, and the output buffer to
be flushed, instead of being specially interpreted by wpr3287.
By default, EBCDIC CRs cause the (virtual) print head to return to
column 0, so that subsequent text overwrites what is already in the buffer,
and the buffer is flushed only when an EBCDIC NL or EM order is
received.
- -eojtimeout seconds
-
Causes wpr3287 to complete the print job after seconds seconds
of inactivity.
- -emflush
-
Causes wpr3287 to flush any pending printer output whenever an EM
(End of Medium) order arrives in unformatted 3270 mode.
This can help preserve multi-page output with hosts that do not clear the 3270
buffer between pages.
(Note: This option is defined for historical purposes only; -emflush is now
the default.)
- -noemflush
-
Causes wpr3287 not to flush any pending printer output when an EM
(End of Medium) order arrives in unformatted 3270 mode.
- -ignoreeoj
-
Ignore TN3270E PRINT-EOJ commands, relying on UNBIND commands to indicate
the ends of print jobs.
- -ffeoj
-
Causes wpr3287 to add a FF (formfeed) at the end of each print job.
- -ffskip
-
Causes wpr3287 to ignore a FF (formfeed) order if it occurs
at the top of a page.
- -ffthru
-
In SCS mode, causes wpr3287 to pass FF (formfeed) orders through to the
printer as ASCII formfeed characters, rather than simulating them based on the
values of the MPL (maximum presentation line) and TM (top margin) parameters.
- -mpp n
-
Specifies a non-default value for the Maximum Presentation Position (the
line length for unformatted Write commands).
The default is 132.
The minimum is 40 and the maximum is 256.
- -printer printer
-
Specifies the Windows printer to use for each print job.
The default is to use the printer specified by the $PRINTER environment
variable, if defined, and otherwise to use the default Windows printer.
The printer can be the name of a local printer, or a UNC path to a remote
printer, e.g., \\server\printer1.
- -printercp codepage
-
Specifies the code page to use when generating printer output.
The default is to use the system ANSI code page.
- -noverifycert
-
Do not verify the host certificate for SSL/TLS connections.
- -proxy type:host[:port]
-
Causes wpr3287 to connect via the specified proxy, instead of
using a direct connection.
The host can be an IP address or hostname.
The optional port can be a number or a service name.
For a list of supported proxy types, see PROXY
below.
- -reconnect
-
Causes wpr3287 to reconnect to the host, whenever the connection is
broken.
There is a 5-second delay between reconnect attempts, to reduce network
thrashing for down or misconfigured hosts.
- -skipcc
-
For unformatted writes, skip ASA carriage control characters (e.g., blank for
single-space, 0 for double-space, 1 for formfeed, etc.) in the first
position of each line of host output.
- -trace
-
Turns on data stream tracing.
Trace information is usually saved in the file
x3trc.pid.txt.
- -tracedir dir
-
Specifies the directory to save trace files in, instead of
the current directory.
- -trnpre file
-
Specifies a file containing data that will be sent to the printer before each
print job.
The file contents are treated as transparent data, i.e., they are not
translated in any way.
- -trnpost file
-
Specifies a file containing data that will be sent to the printer after each
print job.
The file contents are treated as transparent data, i.e., they are not
translated in any way.
- -v
-
Display build and version information and exit.
- -verifycert
-
Verify the host certificate for SSL/TLS connections. (This is the default
setting.)
- -xtable file
-
Specifies a file containing transparent data translations.
The file specifies EBCDIC characters that will be translated into transparent
ASCII data (data that will not be further translated and will not count as
taking up column(s) on the print line).
Any printable ECBDIC code can be translated to zero or more ASCII characters.
The table consists of lines that look like:
ebcdic ebcdic-code ascii ascii-code...
The ebcdic-code can be specified in hexadecimal X'nn' notation or
as numbers in decimal, octal (with a leading 0) or hexadecimal (with a leading
0x).
The ascii-codes can be specified as numbers in decimal, octal or
hexadecimal, control codes such as ^X, symbolic control codes such
as CR or Escape, or as double-quoted strings, following the
full C-language conventions, such as \r for a carriage return.
Comments begin with #, ! or //.
Here are some examples of translations.
# Expand EBCDIC D to an escape sequence.
ebcdic X'C4' ascii Esc "]1,3" 0x6d
# Delete EBCDIC B's
ebcdic X'C2' ascii
The full list of symbolic control codes is: BS CR BEL ESC ESCAPE FF HT LF NL NUL SPACE TAB VT.
Environment
- PRINTER
-
Specifies the Windows printer to use for print jobs.
The -printer command-line option overrides $PRINTER.
Proxy
The -proxy option
causes wpr3287 to use a proxy server to connect to the host.
The syntax of the option is:
type:host[:port]
The supported values for type are:
Proxy Type | Protocol | Default Port |
http | RFC 2817 HTTP tunnel (squid) | 3128 |
passthru | Sun in.telnet-gw | none |
socks4 | SOCKS version 4 | 1080 |
socks5 | SOCKS version 5 (RFC 1928) | 1080 |
telnet | No protocol (just send connect host port) | none |
The special types socks4a and socks5d can also be used to force
the proxy server to do the hostname resolution for the SOCKS protocol.
See Also
wc3270(1)
Data Stream Programmer's Reference, IBM GA23-0059
Character Set Reference, IBM GA27-3831
3174 Establishment Controller Functional Description, IBM GA23-0218
RFC 1576, TN3270 Current Practices
RFC 1646, TN3270 Extensions for LUname and Printer Selection
RFC 2355, TN3270 Enhancements
Copyrights
Copyright © 1993-2020, Paul Mattes.
Copyright © 1990, Jeff Sparkes.
Copyright © 1989, Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC), Atlanta, GA
30332.
All rights reserved.
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