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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: TCP/IP net printers
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> I could connect to this printer using smbprint (samba)
> but the question came up in me "How does FreeBSD
> cope with these TCP/IP printservers"?

lp|rlp|lw|ps|postscript|PostScript|lp1|lw1|postscript1|PostScript1:\
        :lp=:\
        :mx#0:\
        :rm=print.sri.MT.net:\
        :rp=pr1:\
        :sd=/var/spool/sri-remote:

Which assumes that the printer supports the BSD lpr-remote printer
protocol.  (Mine does).


Nate