Thanks for all the responses I've got. I'll let you know what I've done when I install the printer... Rodrigo Em Dom, 2004-01-04 às 13:06, Tom Diehl escreveu: > On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Rodrigo Malara wrote: > > > Em Dom, 2004-01-04 às 11:43, Tom Diehl escreveu: > > > On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Rodrigo Malara wrote: > > > > > > > Hi to all, > > > > > > > > my company is acquiring an impact printer and we would want to print > > > > plain text files with it. In MS-DOS we would do the following: > > > > > > > > type file.txt > LPT1 > > > > > > > > So, my question is: Can we (and how) do it using linux too? We have > > > > fedora core 1 running here... > > > > > > Add it to cups using redhat-config-printer* and print to it like any other > > > printer. > > > > > > Maybe "lp file.txt" or whatever you do to print to any other printer. > > > > Do you know if the text to be printed are graphics rendered (slow > > printing) or if the text will be sent to the printer directly to be > > rendered by it's built in fonts (faster printing) ? > > I _think_ it depends on the driver you select but I am not sure. If you > do not need the spooler functions you can always do cat filename > /dev/lp1 > or whatever the device happens to be. Of course that means multiple users > could do the same thing at the same time and really screw things up. :-) > > HTH, > > .....Tom > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
