Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:56:47 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD port for redirecting printer Message-ID: <20130227115646.GA1821@tiny.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20130226183646.GA2351@tiny.Sisis.de> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1302261814330.27474@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20130226180645.GA1161@tiny.Sisis.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1302261929020.27796@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20130226183646.GA2351@tiny.Sisis.de>
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El día Tuesday, February 26, 2013 a las 07:36:46PM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió: > > > Install CUPS (from our ports), catch the incoming data on 9100 with > > > ncat(1) (from ports) and pipe the data to a "lpr -P.... -o raw" command (of CUPS) > > No not CUPS. Not needed (i just want to sent it to printer). And avoided > > at all cost. > > But for this, CUPS is your best choice. Re/ CUPS and lpd(8), I only want to mention that in real world live I'm the technical lead of a software company and we have around 150 big libraries (of Universities etc.) which run our solutions on Linux or Solaris SPARC; they all use a precompiled CUPS and configure all their printers in the network with CUPS (browser admin); I will not imagine what would happen for us on service hotline, if they would all use something different and asking "why the hell the print is not coming out"; another issue, how do you print an UTF-8 encoded text file, containing for example Hebrew and Greek? With CUPS' lpr(1) you just say: $ lpr -Pfoo myfile.txt and all is done on the fly, assuming the printer "foo" understands Postscript. matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz | - No system with backdoors like Apple/Android E-mail: guru@unixarea.de | - Never being an iSlave WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | - No proprietary attachments, no HTML/RTF in E-mail phone: +49-170-4527211 | - Respect for open standards
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