Re: Printing *huge* files via compressed pipe ?
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Carpenter, Dean wrote:
> The jobs themselves are just postscript - plain ascii. So I'm thinking
> I can set up a Linux box as a local printer at site 1, pipe the print
> job through gzip which should cut it down to less than 1/10 the size,
> ship across the T1 to another Linux box at the printer site which
> ungzips it and sends it to the printer or print-server.
>
I think magicfilter can help you. Here's a quote from magicfilter(8):
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HINTS
Using the pipe facility together with zcat or gunzip lets
you transparently print compressed files.
magicfilter is a debian package.
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