On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:15:08PM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > Hendrik: > ... > > I dumped Cups, am using lprng. Works fine, except that some > > programs don't know how to use lprng. With libreoffice, I find > > I have to print to a file, and then lpr that file. It won't > > go to the printer directly > > > > Of course then I have the abilty to get libreoffice to generate > > postscript instead of pdf. Postsript is much smaller. > > Can't you make a named pipe and let the other end connect to lpr ? > http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lpg/node15.html > > Then "saving" to that file sends the content to lpr. > > It sounds like a nice hack to be added to the lpd deamon suite. >
I remember I used something like that as well. Now I can't tell whether I found that in the HOWTO (remember, once upon time we learned stuff from HOWTOs... :D) or if it was a script I had found somewhere else... HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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