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From: Joseph Mack <mack@appliedreasoning.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ftp-ing to a printer
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 16:16:53 -0400
Organization: Applied Reasoning Systems
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Christoff Snijders wrote:
> 
> Apologies if this is a silly question, but does
> anyone know how to ftp a text file to a line
> printer?

I've only done this with one printer, but it looked
like a normal node. You ftp to it (it has a regular
name or at least an IP number), you login (we
didn't have a passwd on ours) and then you "put" your
file and then you exit.

	Joe

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