On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:15:08PM +0100, karl@??? 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

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