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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting want the current directory without the absolute path Post 302087467 by olimiles on Friday 1st of September 2006 07:07:47 AM
Old 09-01-2006
Excellent, just what i was looking for!

Much appreciated

Oliver
 

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jetpipe(8)																jetpipe(8)

NAME
jetpipe - bind a printer device to a tcp port SYNOPSIS
jetpipe <printerdevice> <portnumber> DESCRIPTION
jetpipe will bind a printer device to a given portnumber so the printer can be accessed through the JetDirect protocol from a remote client. EXAMPLE
/usr/sbin/jetpipe /dev/usblp0 9100 The above commandline will bind the USB printer on /dev/usblp0 to port 9100 where it can be acessed through the JetDirect protocol from a cups client SEE ALSO
cups-deviced(8), cups-driverd(8), cups-lpd(8), cups-polld(8), cupsd.conf(5) cupsd(8) AVAILABILITY
jetpipe is part of ltsp package and the latest versions are available in source form from https://launchpad.net/products/ltsp (link to URL https://launchpad.net/products/ltsp) . AUTHOR
copyright 2006 Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com>, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later ver- sion. Oliver Grawert 20061206 jetpipe(8)
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