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From: kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Printing to a network printer?
Date: 12 Jan 1996 00:18:35 GMT
Organization: Forecast Systems Laboratory
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Message-ID: <4d49cr$f86@lace.colorado.edu>
References: <4d2p9e$enc@swordfish.fastnet.co.uk>
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In article <4d2p9e$enc@swordfish.fastnet.co.uk>,
Richard Bennett <argusops@argus-btn.co.uk> wrote:
>lpr is great for printing to a remote host
>
>but I need to print direct to the IP address of the network printer!

See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/printing:advanced:network:net-if.html.
Look for the perl script.

You can also use the information in that chapter to set up lpr to work
with the network printer.

-- 
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA

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