Summary: Temporary Printers

From: Kirk Rafferty <krafferty_at_worldnet.att.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 16:29:13 -0600

A list of respondants follows, I apologize if I left anyone out.

Esentially, the logical solution in my case was to set up /etc/printcap
to print remotely to my 8200.

Bill David had a "down-and-dirty" approach that particularly appeals to
my "keep-it-simple-stupid" philosophy:

> Put the new machine in the /etc/hosts.lpd of the 8200
> Then, at a shell prompt, something like:

> for p in printer1 printer1 printer3
> do
> echo $p:rm=your_8200:rp=$p:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/$p: >> /etc/printcap
> mkdir /usr/spool/lpd/$p
> chown daemon:daemon /usr/spool/lpd/$p
> done

If anyone would like the other reponses I received, email me and I'll
send them. This method worked for me though.

I lost my original post, but to the question was that I was looking for
a quick and easy way to set up a large number of printers on a temporary
box, that were already set up on my 8200.

Thanks to:
Keith Weaver
Bill David
Brian Sheehan
Mark Zander

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Received on Fri Aug 08 1997 - 00:36:36 NZST

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