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From: Barnacle Wes <wes@intele.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: remote printing problem
Date: 21 Jun 1995 05:19:38 GMT
Organization: The briney, briney deep
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kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey) wrote:
>Is there any way (short of hacking lpd source code) to make lpd print
>to two different printers that listen on different TCP ports?
>
>I have access to two printers, and one listens on "printer" (port
>515), but the other listens on port 2000 (this is under someone else's
>control and cannot be changed.) I would like to be able to access
>them both.
>
>It seems that /etc/printcap would be the logical place to list
>alternate ports for remote printers, but even NetBSD doesn't do this.
You could write a simple daemon that opens a pty, collects input from
it and redirects it to the TCP port in question. You would then use
the pty as the printer port. I have a book buried somewhere around
here entitled something like "Adventures in UNIX Network Programming"
that mentions this exact strategy and has sample programs.
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