9.17 I have an HP3000 here with a little problem. It doesn't have a printer and I need one "short term" (meaning like now), because I need a printer to run a batch job. How can I "fake out" the system?
Go into :SYSGEN and define a printer DEV=LP, LDEV=6 for any unused HPIB or SCSI address on an existing HPIB or SCSI bus. Your jobs will spool just fine even if the printer is offline or even bogus as in this case.
Another approach is to define a non-existent network printer: Io>MD 6;id=hptcpjd;class=LP;path=none This has the advantage of not requiring an HPIB or SCSI address and still satisfies the output device for LDEV 10 with device class LP.