Subject: Re: Changes to lpd to run if and of on remote printers
To: David Brownlee <abs@formula1.com>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-misc
Date: 08/29/2002 10:41:56
[ On Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 15:38:44 (+0100), David Brownlee wrote: ]
> Subject: Changes to lpd to run if and of on remote printers
>
> 	lpd has a '-r' option to run 'of' for remote printers, but it
> 	doesn't actually pass the contents of any files through it.
> 
> 	I've come up with a set of patches that handles this - does
> 	anyone have any thought/objections/comments?

It sounds like a good idea -- I've wanted to do something like this in
the past myself, though in that case I ened up using a different host
with a different print spooling implementation.

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