From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 10:57:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6953415130 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:57:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA13604; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 14:01:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199910181801.OAA13604@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Network Port Printing In-Reply-To: <000701bf1965$9cec8200$5214010a@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk> from Greg Quinlan at "Oct 18, 1999 01:38:00 pm" To: greg@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk (Greg Quinlan) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 14:01:02 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Quinlan wrote, [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > 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. . . . -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message