FreeBSD port for redirecting printer

[Matthias Apitz]

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.

	matthias

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