[maemo-users] [maemo-users] Printing?

[From: Damien Challet]

On Sunday 28 January 2007 21:56, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Sunday 28 January 2007 11:38, Damien Challet wrote:
> > On Sunday 28 January 2007 16:56, Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga wrote:
> > > Jonathan Greene wrote:
> > > > It would be great to print from my N800 to a network accessible
> > > > printer... Anyone figure a hack for this?
> > >
> > > There are remote only lpr tools, like http://truffula.com/rlpr/. Maybe
> > > these can run on maemo?
> >
> > this is what I use in an other context:
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > my($file)=$ARGV[0];
> > system("scp $file user\@host:");
> > system("ssh user\@host lpr $file");
> > sleep 100;
> > system("ssh user\@host rm -f $file");
> > exit;
>
> Damien,
>
>    If I'm understanding this correctly, you are saying (in perl) take this
> file and move it to that host and print it using it's defaults.  Or am I
> wrong.  (If I'm right, slick idea!)

Yes, that is correct, assuming also that key authentification is set up.

One should of course convert it into a shell script.