Simple bypass: Putty, configure your printer on the terminal page to point to your windows printer environment.
Then, write a wrapper so you can pipe a file (or send files) to your terminal: This way you can wrap a file in the escape sequences to turn on terminal bypass printing and then turn it off. My main complaint with MobaXterm is that I've not found an equivalent mechanism. At my work there was no way around that mechanism. Mind you, we switched to the Secure Print Konica-Miniolta system so there is, effectively, no easy workaround. (I used to be able to, with the IP address of a printer, set up a network printer within Linux environments. Since I'm pretty much a dinosaur and like to see my work on dead trees, I've had to compile my own copy of a2ls on a bunch of Solaris and Linux boxes so I can get listing that are, at least, reasonably readable.) Yes, this is not a useful solution for production. -soup -- John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot com MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows "It doesn't matter how well-crafted a system is to eliminate errors; Regardless of any and all checks and balances in place, all systems will fail because, somewhere, there is meat in the loop." - me ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
