[LUGSB] Print from Anywhere

[Aaron Pellman-Isaacs]

As a follow up, some quick googling tells me that pharos is a standard 
lpd spool that takes a username as an option, the username would have to 
be your netid obviously, the spool is prolly located on Peanuts, but I 
know it's actually in the installer for PFA so I'll look later.
This seems to indicate it's theoretically possible to use the system 
from linux, without software from pharos...
--Aaron
Aaron Pellman-Isaacs wrote:
> At least on the mac side (which is all I've gotten to play with it on 
> yet) it adds a printer type to use a pharos queue system and an 
> application that's called when that queue is activated that prompts 
> for and sends a username (popup). All the uni app is is a bundling of 
> pharos' system plus the info specific to stonybrook and a driver for 
> the actual printers we use. It's possible that if pharos makes a linux 
> client (cant check now, heading out the door) that we cna just use the 
> info it enters (it's all stored in the app package, easily findable, I 
> glanced at it a while back) to add the appropriate support to linux...
> --Aaron
>
> Benjamin Kudria wrote:
>> On Sunday 27 April 2008 00:12:20 am Benjamin Bannier wrote:
>>  
>>> after reading a little article[1] in the current Statesman I just
>>> checked the website for "Print from Anywhere"[2]. From the software
>>> downloads they provide it looks like again they thought of Mac and
>>> Windows support only.
>>>
>>> Is this correct?
>>>
>>> I have a Linux user's personal Open Standards/Free Information advocacy
>>> mail to Matthew Fröhlich[3] in my Drafts folder, since I like the idea
>>> that the complaints start already before the launch party, but I'd just
>>> like to check I do not get it wrong ...
>>>
>>> Who's the one with the crystal ball again?
>>>     
>>
>> I saw that, and I was disappointed by the Windows/Mac monopoly, and 
>> also by the fact that there was absolutely no info on how the system 
>> worked, technically.  I bet running the Windows app with Wine might 
>> yield some more info.
>>
>> Ben Kudria
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