On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Matthew Reilly wrote:

> Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> That is correct, although I'm still not totally sure who's fault it was,
> the machine's or mine. Once I got the print-server I kinda gave up. I'm
> trying to remember if I got it to print out the raw postscript code late
> one night or was that after I got the print-server? It's all a blur now.
> When I get this working I'll hook the serial cable back up and take
> another stab at it.

Please do. :-)

> Thanks for the suggestions Bill, it'll probably be numbers 1 or 3 seeing
> as I'm not a coder (always wanted to learn though). What about LPRng?
> I'm reading over the docs right now and it might help but it seems like
> the effort in getting it configured might be equal to teaching myself to
> code. On the LPRng pages they make brief mention of using netcat to send
> the job files to the printer. I've built it from pkgsrc but I'm still
> looking around for some docs for it. The firewall at work blocks the
> l0pht site so I'll have to wait until I get home.

I'm not familiar with LPRng, so I can't say much. But "netcat" sounds like
what I'd name the command in question. Figure out how you "netcat" a file
to a foreign lpd and you're set.

Take care,

Bill