[ale] Printer Questions

[Nick Lucent]

On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:

really? Everyone Ive known that prints to win from linux has samba
installed in order to print, I dont know if they put the script in theyre
printcap or what, but Ive heard that it was a pain in the butt, but like I
said Ive never printed to win from linux
Nick

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> On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Nick Lucent wrote:
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> > Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 15:37:59 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Nick Lucent <nlucent at mindspring.com>
> > To: "Dave[tm]" <spork at trusted.net>
> > Cc: ale at cc.gatech.edu
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Printer Questions
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> > On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Dave[tm] wrote:
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> > Linux can print to that printer but you will need samba installed to do
> > it, samba comes with a couple scripts to print to a windows printer, but
> > Ive heard (never done it myself) that they dont work and its a real pain
> > in the butt to get working.
> 	Hmm... I've got 2 DEC Alphas, neither of which have Samba
> install'd, printing off the HP Laserjet 5 shared off a Win95 workstation
> in our office. I just use 'lpr filename' and it prints off fine. Both
> machines are runnin RH5.
> 	Jeremy
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>     Jeremy T. Bouse - SouthNet TeleComm Services, Inc - www.STSI.net
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