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I am pleased to announce the availability of xprt, a utility to support
auxiliary printers attached to terminals. See appended README for more
information.
I have just uploaded xprt-0.9.002.tar.gz to
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming/
The final site should be
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/
README:
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This is xprt-0.9.002, a program that allows the transparent use of
attached auxiliary printers on terminals. It uses mandatory file
locking, so you need a kernel that has the support for mandatory
locking compiled in.
This program was written under Linux-2.0.27. Any recent Linux-version
should do. In fact, xprt could run on other Uni*es that support manda-
tory locking on character devices, too. That obviously does not include
AIX 3.4 and SCO 3.2v4.2.
Installation is pretty straight-forward: type 'make install' and find
out if I overlooked something :-).
Examples:
/etc/rc.d/rc.xprt
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#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
start )
mknod /dev/ttyS0_p p
mknod /dev/ttyS1_p p
xprt -i /dev/ttyS0_p -o /dev/ttyS0 -t vt100
xprt -i /dev/ttyS1_p -o /dev/ttyS1 -t vt100
;;
stop )
killall xprt
;;
esac
$HOME/.profile
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mknod /tmp/my_printer p
/usr/sbin/xprt -i /tmp/my_printer
I hope its useful.
02/03/1997
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