On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:52:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/20/08 16:24, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > I often have forms to fill out and some would be better not > > hand-written. However, they all differ so I can't just set-up a > > template. > > > > Does anyone know of an app that will give me an interactive session with > > my Epson dot-matrix printer? I could feed that in (its an LQ-2080 and > > will do plain paper), use the enter key in the traditional typewriter > > way, etc. > > > > It shouldn't be too big a deal to do, I just figured I'd see if there's > > already a solution before I try to reinvent a very old wheel. > > The problem, I think, is that, in multi-user systems printers are > connected to application software via print queues instead of > directly attached like in single-user OSs.
Well, that could either be handled by something imitating lpd and putting a lock on the printer or by lpc to stop the printing but allow spooling to continue. Either way, this frees up the printer. /dev/lp0 is owned by root:lp so I suppose the person doing the typewriting would either have to belong to the lp group or be root. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
