OT: Unix => Windoze XP printing

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>Bob Rasmussen propounded (on Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:43:53AM -0800):
>| On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>| 
>| > ... 
>| > 
>| > BUT: this evening, I produced a plaintext file and then a postscript
>| > document from OSR 6 on Jane's Dell printer, using remote printing.
>| > Yes, Windows XP can be told to accept jobs on port 515.
>| 
>| Yes, Windows XP contains an LPD service. It should work to send plain text 
>| to printers that can accept plain text. Not all can. It is also not an 
>| option for printing fancier output.
>
>Actually, I'm doing just fine sending PostScript files to Jane's Dell.
>
>What I'm now about to do is automate fax delivery here.  Right now, all
>incoming faxes come to my mailbox and I view them in my X Window; I
>rarely print them unless they're for Jane.  Now I'll start to build up a
>list of the Sender Names (or Numbers) of people who fax her a lot, and
>redirect those faxes straight to her printer.

I'm doing something similar with HylaFAX except that I forward an
e-mail to my wife with the fax as a PDF attachment that she can
do with whatever she wants.

I've hacked the faxrecvd script to create two MIME attachments,
one a standard fax TIFF, the other PDF.  Viewing the TIFF file is
very fast and efficient with the viewfax X11 client while PDF is
more generally useful for people running other software.

Bill
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