Re: Printing the old way
On Tue 14 Jun 2022 at 23:25:32 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> 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
My notes from bo (1.3) mention a program called checkpc. You edited
the files /etc/lpd.{conf,perms} and /etc/printcap, and then ran
checkpc (as user) and checkpc -f (as root) to set it all up.
Cheers,
David.
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