On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:49:41AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> >Rajesh Fowkar rearranged electrons thusly:
> >
> >> We want to print to a local printer bypassing the spooler. How this
> >> can be done under Linux ?
> >
> >you can config multiple lpds - lpd1, lpd2 --> remote spooler etc etc
> >
> No Suresh. I will make myself clear. We have only one
> printer on the server. That is working fine. Now we have got
> some dumb terminals to which we can connect a printer. We
> have got a printer connected to the dumb terminals. Now if I
> send printing from Dumb terminal it goes to the server
> printer (spool), how can I print to the local printer
> connected to dumb terminal.
>
Hi Rajesh,
All a dumb terminal can do is decode the escape sequences it receives &
display on the screen & also send whatever u type to the server. dumb
terminals normally provide a hot key to provide a menu, from which you can
select various settings, such as line speed, no. of columns, printer type
...etc. In our place, the hotkey is Alt+Escape
I guess printing functionality is provided by a screen print thro' a
hotkey (or thro' an escape seq. from server), or probably by a setting,
which instructs the dumb terminal to redirect everything it receives to a
printer.
There's a program vtprint (which I haven't tried !) which may of use to u.
See packages.debian.org/stable/text/vtprint.html
Text-Terminal-HOWTO also would give u good details. Search for it in your
howto dir.
Sreeji
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