Printing From home

[gonzilla]

Hello,

I am taking an operating systems class where I am learning UNIX. To access UNIX I have to telnet in to the school because I don't have it (or Linux) at home yet. I would like to be able to print from my home printer when I am doing projects. Right now, I FTP the document to my PC which is fine, but I was wondering if there was a simple way I could just get it to print to LPT1.

Thank you for your help.

-Tyler

 

[edfair]

Can only speak from a terminal and login environment. I do this regularly on SCO using a terminal emulator logging into the sco boxes. Have printer set up in unix for printing to the attached printer. This may be built in on the unix you are using. But it can also be built into the printer interface scripts if it is not built into the hardware. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply.

Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.

 

[crowe]

This will work if you are running in a VT100 enviornment. Creat a script called local_print containing this:

FILE=$1
echo ^[[5i
cat $FILE
echo ^L^M
echo ^[[4i

The ^[ ^L and ^M are escape characters, not ^ and L.

Then to print, local_print filename. This will output to whatever your emulator has defined as the default printer.