Hello, On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:17:20AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I am a fan of LPRng and I want to keep it. > Now, recent releases of Maple (9.0 and 9.5) do require CUPS > to be installed on your system. > Since I don't want to switch to CUPS I am curious if there > is an 'emulator' which software like Maple recognizes and > which passes all files/inquiries to LPRng. > > If that's not already done and not too difficult I'd like to > write such a tool in Python (or Perl) > I'd just need some pointers on what to do for this.
we here are using ifhp as a backend for the CUPS spooler so thats somekind of the other way you are asking for. We did that because the socket backend lacks some nice features like actions on error codes and setting the Display - did anybody know something about improved backends ? But I included the python code just to give you an idea. Greetings Hermann > > Many thanks for any hints, > > Helmut Jarausch -- Netzwerkadministration/Zentrale Dienste, Interdiziplinaeres Zentrum fuer wissenschaftliches Rechnen der Universitaet Heidelberg IWR; INF 368; 69120 Heidelberg; Tel: (06221)54-8236 Fax: -5224 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
