On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 1:15 PM, oiaohm <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > LPR on most Linux systems go to cups Gert van deb Berg. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Printer_Daemon_protocol > > They are not independent. Cups set right for dot-matrix works fine. Really using raw mode has to be though about why. Since raw mode is printer dependant and kinda heavy. Lots of cases after looking at the text driver options its not required. > I was more thinking along the lines of LPRng or something similar... http://www.lprng.com/ Doesn't really seem to offer any real advantages though... Does Linux support the sharing of devices (in a usable way) in /dev over the network? (maybe with NFS?) (Without apecial spoftware such as the ports of parts of plan 9 listed below...) Something like this might allow that: http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs Gert
