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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Printcap filters question
Message-ID: <id.JEYL1.JZ2@nmti.com>
Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva)
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
References: <3u0hjg$j0g@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> <3uljru$dpo@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <id.R9SL1.MJ9@nmti.com> <3uu897$b5@knobel.gun.de>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 14:50:15 GMT
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In article <3uu897$b5@knobel.gun.de>,
Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> wrote:
> Could one pipe the data from within the filter script through
> telnet rm-printer ???

Yeh, but that's a really perverse way of doing it when "lpr" already speaks
the right protocol, and is dead easy to configure.
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