On Sunday 28 January 2007 01:49:39 pm Jonathan Greene wrote: > On 1/28/07, Damien Challet <dchallet at onetel.com> wrote: > > 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. > > That would be pretty amazing and if in OSX, I set up an automator > action to watch a particular folder and print new things... it would > totally work! > > How would I make it a shell script? And how would you do it from > something like Opera for example? There is no file to move around... I believe the bash conversion would be. #!/usr/bin/bash file=$1 user=[put your user here] host=[put fqdn or up of printer host here] scp $file $user@$host:/tmp ssh $user@$host `lpr /tmp/$file` sleep 100 ssh $user@$host `rm $file` echo "complete" Though I'm not in a place to verify it yet. (No printer here.) James
