My guess is that there are two ways to do this. (1) Connect a serial terminal
to the serial maintenance port, and access a boot PROM menu. (2) Use
postscript commands. So far I can't get any start menu to show up. But using
LaserTalk, I found there are the following commands:

ethernetaddr
setethernetaddr
internetnumber
setinternetnumber

This is postscript level 52.3, revision 906.

These postscript commands do not work the way I expected. Normally the
commands without "set" would return the current value, but these expect
something passed to them. And normally the ones with set would accept
either a single decimal number, or a set of numbers, but I usually end up
with type errors.

Does someone have the specs on these commands?
Or is someone familiar with any means of setting the IP number? (I can't
settle for one that Linotype has "built in," e.g. 97.03.0.2.)

--rich

The ones you expect to return the address probably do, but you probably
need to provide a string on the stack.  So maybe something like
"32 string internetnumber" would leave a string on the stack containing
the IP address.  You might try clearing the stack and then calling one
of those operators to see if you get a stack underflow.

Unless Lino has changed their TCP/IP communication option, I think you will
find it fairly useless.  I know that Linos used to use TFTP to accept files
using TCP/IP, and with TFTP you are limited to 32767 blocks of 512 bytes
(block number is contained in a 16-bit signed int), so that put a limit
of 16MB on the size of file you can send via TCP/IP.

That's it! Took less than a minute. Thanks very much.

Here's the script then:

serverdict begin 0 exitserver
statusdict begin
32 string internetnumber
=                               %% verify number: in my case: wrong
(204.253.233.42) setinternetnumber
=                               %% verify number: correct
quit

--rich