On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 08:18:03 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 24 Jun 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > Correct, I have lpr. > > > > I have the impression that the support for piping the print job to lpr > > (or an equivalent command) has been removed or at least reduced > > significantly.
[...] > This is a retrograde development. A principal advantage of Linux has > always been that you had a wide choice, but this restricts choice. It > seems that I must either use CUPS, which I don't want to do, or print to > file and then print that. You could always print to the same file, e.g. /tmp/mozilla.ps, and run a script in the background that waits for the presence of this file, sends it to your spooler of choice, and removes the file afterwards. The manpage of inotifywait (package inotify-tools) has examples for such "wait for a filesystem event, then do something" scripts. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
