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Subject: Re: Remote printing
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Date: 13 Apr 90 02:34:32 GMT
References: <8448@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: states@tech.NLM.NIH.GOV (David States)
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In article <8448@tank.uchicago.edu> kur7@tank.uchicago.edu (Shin Kurokawa) writes:
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>Any suggestions on how I can make a 4D/220 to access the printer
>that is physically connected to a BSD unix system on the
>network? 

A real simple hack that can be set up easily is to create a shellscript file
with the following commands:

cat $1 | rsh PRINTER_HOST lpr 

you need to have an account on the PRINTER_HOST machine and need to setup
a .rhosts file, but then you can print transparently.  It is very useful
when you are working on a remote system that is not particularly well
integrated with your own and want to be able to print locally.

David States