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Re: LYNX-DEV Printing from dumb terminals
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John aka DearOldDad |
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Re: LYNX-DEV Printing from dumb terminals |
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Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:59:55 -0500 (EST) |
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Albert S Woodhull wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Mike Brown wrote:
> > Lynx's (p)rint function can send a formatted, plain text version of the
> > page being currently viewed to an external program on the host machine as
> > input. If your sysadmin networked the printers, instead of attaching them
> > to the local terminals, s/he could write a simple wrapper script which
> > would determine which tty the input is coming from, and pipe the data via
> > lpr (or some other print manager) to the appropriate printer.
> At Hampshire College, where I often use lynx while logged onto a shell
> account on a SunOS system, the p)rint function offers to send such output
> to a file, and I can later download this file and print it at home.
Another solution (not very high-tech, but it works for me on a dial up
to an ISP ... also a shell running SunOS) is after choosing (p)rint
select the mail-it-to-yourself option, then open up PINE email from
which I can pr(y)nt from my PC to attached printer(s).
Dad
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