On Sunday 28 January 2007 21:56, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sunday 28 January 2007 11:38, Damien Challet wrote: > > On Sunday 28 January 2007 16:56, Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga wrote: > > > Jonathan Greene wrote: > > > > It would be great to print from my N800 to a network accessible > > > > printer... Anyone figure a hack for this? > > > > > > There are remote only lpr tools, like http://truffula.com/rlpr/. Maybe > > > these can run on maemo? > > > > this is what I use in an other context: > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > my($file)=$ARGV[0]; > > system("scp $file user\@host:"); > > system("ssh user\@host lpr $file"); > > sleep 100; > > system("ssh user\@host rm -f $file"); > > exit; > > Damien, > > If I'm understanding this correctly, you are saying (in perl) take this > file and move it to that host and print it using it's defaults. Or am I > wrong. (If I'm right, slick idea!) Yes, that is correct, assuming also that key authentification is set up. One should of course convert it into a shell script.
