had old dos 3.1 equipment that sent reports to a line printer. I needed to turn those into snmp traps for an alarm system. So I "printed" them to NT which forwarded via lpr to a sun box. The sun printing subsystem is/was actually a shell script that formatted the print job so instead of sending it to a real printer I wrapped the message into an snmp trap and sent it to the alarm system. Would have been just as easy to copy it to a file called file`date` which would have timestamped the filename to make them individual.
thanx,
bill