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Conﬁguring a DTC to enable a printer

The location of a printer and an assigned device ﬁle name must be speciﬁed in a

DTC Device File Access (DDFA) utilities conﬁguration ﬁle. This chapter describes

how to use DDFA to conﬁgure a printer on a DTC. Refer to the DTC Device File

Access Utilities and Telnet Port Identiﬁcation Manual and HP-UX System

Administration Tasks Manual from your HP-UX System Administrator's

documentation set for complete information about DDFA. More information is

available in the following man pages:

• ddfa(7) DTC Device File Access Utilities description

• dp(4) Dedicated port file

• dpp(1m) Dedicated port file parser

• ocd(1m) Outbound connection daemon

• ocdebug(1m) Debug version of ocd

• pcf(4) Port configuration file.

Using DDFA to create a device file name for the printer port

DDFA conﬁguration is based on the /usr/examples/ddfa/dp ﬁle. Follow the

steps below to create a device ﬁle.

1 Ensure that you are logged in as root.

2 Check whether the file /etc/ddfa/dp exists.

If this ﬁle already exists, go to step 6, otherwise go to the next step.

3 Create a directory for the DDFA files. HP recommends /etc/ddfa, as follows:

# mkdir /etc/ddfa

4 Copy the master template dedicated port file, dp, to the DDFA directory:

# cp /usr/examples/ddfa/dp /etc/ddfa/dp

Do not alter /usr/examples/ddfa/dp, so that you keep a master template dp

ﬁle. Altering /etc/ddfa/dp is explained in step 6.

5 Copy the master template port configuration file, pcf, to the DDFA directory:

# cp /usr/examples/ddfa/pcf /etc/ddfa/pcf

Do not alter /usr/examples/ddfa/pcf, so that you keep a master template

pcf ﬁle.