Local printing from remote server: FP 5.0.00

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>From inside the gravity well of a singularity, John Broome shouted:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have successfully gotten my Epson FX-980 to print from SUSE.
> 
> I have FP running on a linux server and I'm connectiong with linux clients
> with a serial printer.
> 
> My question is how to redirect my print output to print to my locally
> connected printer instead of FP thinking i am printing to a printer
> connected directly to the FP server box.
> 
> Currently I have a printer set up in FP to output to | cat > /dev/ttyS0.

Yuk.  Redirecting to the raw device is a step in debugging problematic
issues, not an acceptable final solution for printing.

'man lpr'

You'll want to configure CUPS properly.

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