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Date:      Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:36:47 +0100
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD port for redirecting printer
Message-ID:  <20130226183646.GA2351@tiny.Sisis.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1302261929020.27796@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1302261814330.27474@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20130226180645.GA1161@tiny.Sisis.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1302261929020.27796@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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El día Tuesday, February 26, 2013 a las 07:29:44PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar escribió:

> >> - it will accept a connection even if printer is not connected
> >> - it doesn't work bidirectionally (usually not needed but anyway)
> >>
> >> Anyone knows a program from ports (or not) to do this?
> >
> > Install CUPS (from our ports), catch the incoming data on 9100 with
> > ncat(1) (from ports) and pipe the data to a "lpr -P.... -o raw" command (of CUPS)
> No not CUPS. Not needed (i just want to sent it to printer). And avoided 
> at all cost.

But for this, CUPS is your best choice.

	matthias

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