At Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:59:48 +1000, steven wrote: > Our users use telnet to connect to a server where they run our main ERP > application. (This is Progress RDMS running on RedHat 6.2).
> I am thinking about a perl script that will direct printed output to the > printer closest to the users terminal rather than relying on them to select > the correct printer. the first machine they log in to should set the PRINTER environment variable appropriately. later machines should leave it if they find it already set. all lpr-alike clients should honour this variable. presumably the first machine they log in to will be their terminal, and will know (with a little help from the admin) which printer is closest to it. ssh, telnet, etc should all pass the PRINTER variable through by default. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
