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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.seanet.com!news From: dennisg <dennisg@seanet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Q: remote printing Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 16:59:06 -0800 Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <32B8935A.ABD322C@seanet.com> References: <01bbec8b$37087110$373bf5c0@sequel> NNTP-Posting-Host: dennisg.seanet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) To: JinG <jing@exchanger.scs.com.sg> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32793 JinG wrote: > > Hi, all: > > How to print from freeBSD to another printer on remote Host(such as sun > workstation)? > at My old woork place I used to use "lpr" with an entry in my "etc/printcap" stolen from the sun, and of course you have to change it to "rm" printer for remote. Do a man printcap and you will see. the sun should magicaly conver to postscript for you via it's print filter. At a later time we no longer had the sun as the print spooler, we just had a poscript printer on a network with it's own ip, at that time I had to install a print filter in a shell script ( if it was not postscript the poscriptify else print) there is a package/port/print apsfilter... It's not very hard. Good luck. dennisg