FreeBSD port for redirecting printer

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Wed Feb 27 01:34:51 UTC 2013


On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Matthias Apitz wrote:

> El día Tuesday, February 26, 2013 a las 07:29:44PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar escribió:
>
>>>> - it will accept a connection even if printer is not connected
>>>> - it doesn't work bidirectionally (usually not needed but anyway)
>>>>
>>>> Anyone knows a program from ports (or not) to do this?
>>>
>>> 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.

I don't see that.  Simple lpd(8) should do fine.


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