The software that I am currently using must use "lpd", however I had to upgrade to RHEL4 and now I can't get it to print.

What do I need to do to get cups-lpd to work with my legacy software that only uses lpd?

My read of cups-lpd is that it isn't really an lpd substitution but rather a way to interface your local cups install with an lpd setup on another systems.

I did find some information about doing lpd on Linux at the following site:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Op...DDocumentation

The question is what exactly is your application doing that requires "lpd". It may be there is a way you can just write a script that uses the "lp" command to do what you need and just name the script appropriately.

To be more precise. The following is what I am trying to do.


During my simulation, I want to print a report by pressing "F12".

In the following file:

/etc/X11/twm/system.twmrc

There is a line witten in it to cause it to print. As shown below.

"F12" = : all : f.exec "xwd | xpr -device ljet -cutoff 30 | lpr -Plp &"

In Red Hat 7.3 I had no problems printing the report using "F12", but

with RHEL4 Workstation it does not print. In Red Hat 9.0 it would print

only one time, but at least it did print.

Help me, please!

Odd - xpr in your key map does not appear to be available for RHEL4 but is on RHEL5 (part of xorg-x11-apps RPM).

The online man page for xpr says it formats the xwd dump (done earlier in your map command line) for printing. It then puts it to lpr command.

lpr works for cups but since you're not getting xpr the issue would appear to be there.

Unfortunately this isn't an area I'm knowledgeable in so I'd suggest you post a new question to the list (not in this thread) saying "How do I get xpr working on RHEL4?". Someone knowledgeable about it may be able to provide details or may tell you another way to do the print of the xwd. (I gather there are some conversion utilities and maybe the newer way is convert and print but if so it makes one wonder why xpr is available for RHEL5.)

Failing all that you might try to locate source for xpr and build it yourself.

Sorry I don't have a better answer.

You have been a great help! This seems to help me narrow my search for a fix. Thanks!