[GRLUG] Text only printers

[Matt Behrens]

On Jan 10, 2014, at 10:54 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Jan 2014, Joseph McLaughlin wrote:

>> I just tried
>> echo "text" | lpr
>> and it came out on my default printer

> I thought lpr was normally configured to pipe through a driver? [I
> normally use CUPS]

Yeah, this occurred to me too.  Even pre-CUPS, I remember setting up systems that would have filters behind lpr et al.
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