Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 14:01:02 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: greg@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk (Greg Quinlan) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Port Printing Message-ID: <199910181801.OAA13604@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <000701bf1965$9cec8200$5214010a@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk> from Greg Quinlan at "Oct 18, 1999 01:38:00 pm"
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Greg Quinlan wrote,
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> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if any one could tell me if there is a way of printing to a
> specific "port" of an IP address. Something like "lpr" style printing but no
> remote machine name. The equipment is not another FreeBSD box but a print
> server without lpr capabilities.
>
> ie. IP Address = 10.1.1.1
> Service/Port = 1000
>
> I do not know enough about remote printing to know if this could be achieved
> with an /etc/printcap entry. Or if a simple C program could do the same
> thing.
% man printcap
.
.
.
If lp is specified as port@machine (and rm is not in use), printing will
be send directly to the given port on the given machine.
.
.
.
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Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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