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- From: Terrance Richard Boyes <tez@pierrot.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Home Network
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- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 96 02:37:49 +0100 (BST)
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- Allen X. Wittenauer (axw@sunquest.com) wrote:
- >
- > Well, it depends. Depending upon what software is used where, you might
- > be able to use an LPR queue-type setup, where one machine serves the rest
- > of them. If one of the machines runs UNIX, then you are in luck. I
- > don't think AmiTCP supports an lpd-type server, and some PC TCP stacks do,
- > others do not.
-
- It's not a matter of supporting, it's whether or not the software exists,
- in the case of lpd it's fairly trivial to write something to do the basic
- job, ie accept items, and send them to the printer...
-
- I'm not quite sure about how to write the client side though... I guess on
- the Amiga something like the following would do the job,
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- run CMD to direct all prints to a file.
- run Sabot (or similar) to watch the printfile
- when the file changes, take a copy, delete it, then
- open a connection on the lpd port to the print server and send the copy
-
- And IMO it would be better using the peecee's as the print server (they've
- got to be good for something ;)
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