[WinMac] Re: TCP printing from NT or Windows box?

Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Fri, 2 Oct 1998 08:56:14 -0400

>Also, there are lpr (which comes from the UNIX world) clients available. If
>the printer supports the use of lpr (I don't recall what is necessary),
>they should work. QVT/NET is a shareware package of network clients &
>servers and it includes an lpr client. I know almost nothing about lpr but
>it seems to be very different from a printer driver. Instead you send a
>file to the printer directly to the printer using the lpr program, not from
>within the normal Windows print dialog in any given application. This
>QVT/lpr has Text or Binary transfer options so I'd guess that it's only
>good for pr

Although this is sort of true on Unix, it doesn't work that way on NT or
95. You just USE an LPR port but still print the same way as before,
using drivers and printing from within your applications.

Alex Dearden
pata@doglover.com

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