Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!kent From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: ethernet printer sharing Message-ID: <2358@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> Date: 15 Apr 91 02:23:30 GMT References: <969@boing.UUCP> Sender: news@swrinde.nde.swri.edu Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas Lines: 36 In article jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) writes: >dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes: >>Syndesis has a new print spool utility that comes with [...] > >(TSSnet is DECnet for the Amiga.) How about remote printing using >tcp/ip? I manage printing to unix with scripts using rcp and rsh, >but having a real Amiga device such as lpr: or lp: would be great. I agree. You can come pretty close to this using CMD, but there are two problems: 1) Programs such as ProScript can't print to par: when CMD is redirected to a NFS-mounted partition. 2) There is not a way (that I know of) for CMD to inform anyone that a file was just 'printed' and what to do with it. Now you can go over to your Unix box & set up something like cron to check every so often & print whatever shows up in a 'spool' directory... It would be nice if CMD could be instructed to issue a command using the filename it just generated, such as: rsh lpr .spool/ ----------------------- For your regular command-line situations, I sure like my Sksh function replacements for enscript & lpr :^) (Thanks to Steve Koren) ===================================================================== Kent Polk - Southwest Research Institute - kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu "Duct Tape is like the Force... It has a Light Side, a Dark Side, and it holds the Universe together" =====================================================================