FreeBSD port for redirecting printer

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Tue Feb 26 18:29:57 UTC 2013


>> - 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 ncat is what i need. thank you



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