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From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: sockets vs. streams
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Date: 5 Sep 90 22:23:47 GMT
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Don Lewis writes:

     Now, if the printer is on a terminal server somewhere...
	     cat somefile >/dev/tcp/x.x.x.x-y.y

     Specifically, you could use this for the lp= parameter in
     /etc/printcap...

This would be nice.  A possible solution is to write a program "netsend":
     
     cat somefile | netsend tcp:x.x.x.x-y.y

Since printcap allows sending to a filter rather than a specific
device, the solution is general enough.

All we need now is for somebody to write it and send it to
comp.sources.misc.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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