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Re: Remote text printer and standard input woes and well the **** thing dont work... sorta,



hi ya

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Kent Andersen wrote:

assuming the "hp" printer is connected to 10.10.1.13  ...

> lp|hp:\
> :lp=:\
> :rp=text:\

remove the above :lp definition since its NOT connected to a 
printer on this particular machine

remove :rp  since this is not needed here

> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> :rm=10.10.1.3:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:

the above says to send all print jobs to the machine called 10.10.1.3

on that particular machine, can it print evrything" ??
	10.10.1.3# lpr /etc/printcap
	10.10.1.3# lpr postscript_file.ps

	10.10.1.3 might need to convert postscript and other whacky files
	into the output format that printer understands 

sometimes the printer manager is also waiting for "CRLF" at the end
of the print job
	- restarting the printer daemon locally will tell the
	remote printer "i'm done" and paper will promptly start spewing
	out

c ya
alvin



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