peter@aucs.AcadiaU.ca (Peter Steele) (05/04/91)
I am evaluating a software package (called qprint) to give us enhanced printing capabilities (in particular forms control). This package does not have direct support for remote printers. However, when a printer is defined, you can specify either a normal device name (e.g. /dev/lp0) or a FIFO. I've never used fifos before. Can I use a fifo to somehow set up a link with a remote host? If not this, could I at least set something up that would cause the file being printed to be piped to another file on the same host as the file being printed? Am I on track at all? -- Peter Steele Postmaster peter@auad.acadiau.ca Tel: 902-542-2201 Software Analyst, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS Fax: 902-542-7224
brian@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca (Brian J. Murrell) (05/07/91)
peter@aucs.AcadiaU.ca (Peter Steele) writes: >I am evaluating a software package (called qprint) to give us enhanced >printing capabilities (in particular forms control). This package does >not have direct support for remote printers. However, when a printer >is defined, you can specify either a normal device name (e.g. /dev/lp0) >or a FIFO. I've never used fifos before. Can I use a fifo to somehow >set up a link with a remote host? If not this, could I at least set >something up that would cause the file being printed to be piped to >another file on the same host as the file being printed? Am I on track >at all? Well what you could do is make the FIFO and have a daemon running whose whole purpose in life is to read from the FIFO and uux the print job (which is all the lp print service does) to the remote site. hope this helps... -- __________ ___ ____ _________________________________________________ / / / /| /| (604)520-3808 uunet!van-bc!bjm!brian /--: / / | / | New Westminster B.C. _______ /__/ /__/ / |/ | _________________________________________________
root@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca (0000-Admin(0000)) (05/07/91)
peter@aucs.AcadiaU.ca (Peter Steele) writes: >I am evaluating a software package (called qprint) to give us enhanced >printing capabilities (in particular forms control). This package does >not have direct support for remote printers. However, when a printer >is defined, you can specify either a normal device name (e.g. /dev/lp0) >or a FIFO. I've never used fifos before. Can I use a fifo to somehow >set up a link with a remote host? If not this, could I at least set >something up that would cause the file being printed to be piped to >another file on the same host as the file being printed? Am I on track >at all? Well what you could do is make the FIFO and have a daemon running whose whole purpose in life is to read from the FIFO and uux the print job (which is all the lp print service does) to the remote site. hope this helps...