Hi, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with > > printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does > > anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages were needed, etc.?
Greg Wooledge wrote: > lprng was the most common one, I think. As the name implies, that one > is the "next generation" of lpr, the old BSD tool. "printcap" is another term which pops up from my 1990s memories. There still exist lpr and lprng as Debian packages: lpr: /usr/share/man/man5/printcap.5.gz lprng: /usr/share/man/man5/printcap.5.gz Have a nice day :) Thomas
