Re: Question

[Joe C. <jo...@sw...>]

Jason M. Grigg wrote:

> Hello all, I am new to webmin and I have a couple of questions.  I am very
> interested in the Telnet feature, especially since my company's software
> runs on a Unix platform.  We have been looking for a way to run our software
> without the use of an emulator, and just using a browser is great.
> Everything looks good, but we are having some trouble printing.  What we
> would like to do is simply cat the file back to the port to print through
> our windows default printer.  Our software issues the command 'cat filename
> 
>>/dev/...' to print to the port.  Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions
>>
> as to how I can accomplish this?  Thank you in advance for your help.


Set the printer up as a properly configured network available printer. 
Change the code to use 'lpr filename' instead of catting the file.  In 
this way you can even select the printer from any that is on your 
network.  (of course, if they are Windows SMB shares you'll need to 
instead use the equivelent Samba printer spool tools...but I don't know 
anything about all that Windows stuff)

If catting must be the way you send it, then you can probably run it 
into the spool device somehow.  But I've never done that.
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