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- From: trossi@kanto.cc.jyu.fi (Timo Rossi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: remote printer.device (for BSD-lpd)?
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 20:14:56 +0200
- Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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- Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- > F.Wolff@tu-harburg.d400.de (Florian Wolff) writes:
-
- >>Is there some kind of printer.device available, which redirects any printing
- >>on the Amiga to a Linux-Box on the Ethernet?
-
- > Well. This is what you have to do though. The lpr protocol requires
- > a file (i.e. some data with a known size). The best solution would
- > be a printer spooler that stores the files somewhere and then runs
- > the lpr command.
-
- I have written a simple device driver that writes the data in a file
- (in T:-directory), and then runs the lpr-command to print the file.
- I can upload it to Aminet if someone is interested.
-
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