Re: Printing the old way

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Paul M. Foster 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.?

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

"printcap" is another term which pops up from my 1990s memories.
There still exist lpr and lprng as Debian packages:
  lpr: /usr/share/man/man5/printcap.5.gz
  lprng: /usr/share/man/man5/printcap.5.gz


Have a nice day :)

Thomas