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Re: Printing the old way



On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 04:59:36PM -0400, paulf@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with
> printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does
> anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages were needed, etc.?

lprng was the most common one, I think.  As the name implies, that one
is the "next generation" of lpr, the old BSD tool.


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