Can I do this with a FIFO?

[Brian J. Murrell]

peter at aucs.AcadiaU.ca (Peter Steele) writes:

>I am evaluating a software package (called qprint) to give us enhanced
>printing capabilities (in particular forms control). This package does
>not have direct support for remote printers. However, when a printer
>is defined, you can specify either a normal device name (e.g. /dev/lp0)
>or a FIFO. I've never used fifos before. Can I use a fifo to somehow
>set up a link with a remote host? If not this, could I at least set
>something up that would cause the file being printed to be piped to
>another file on the same host as the file being printed? Am I on track
>at all?

Well what you could do is make the FIFO and have a daemon running whose
whole purpose in life is to read from the FIFO and uux the print job
(which is all the lp print service does) to the remote site.

hope this helps...
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