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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 127285] Honor VT100 Remote Printing Sequences
From:       Michael Trausch <fd0man () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-05-21 17:38:06
Message-ID: 20060521173806.8574.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From fd0man gmail com  2006-05-21 19:38 -------
> > Ideally, if I'm ssh'd into a 
> > server somewhere through a Konsole session, I should be able to pipe a raw 
> > text file or PostScript document into a shell printing script and it should 
> > work.     

> ... and this, i believe, is the point. Why not using a proper remote printer 
> for your task? 
 
This is the proper remote printing setup for printing to a terminal.  Now, of the \
terminals that support it (even hardware ones) you can turn off the "magic" of those \
printing sequences, and if you wanted, they could be off by default.  The point is \
that this is standard terminal functionality that I use and that Konsole doesn't \
support, so for the time being, I am stuck using PuTTY on Linux (which isn't all that \
prettty).  I am not a developer of C/C++, otherwise, I would give Konsole the support \
and submit a patch to be tested... but the functionality is important.

Assuming you were talking about lpd/lpr, it is because in some circumstances, lpd/lpr \
isn't available, or isn't practical.  That's why I started using this printing \
solution to begin with.  In some cases, it's just not practical -- for a (trivial) \
example, ssh to freeshell.org and print up the list of dialup phone numbers.  It's \
much easier to be able to do "getdialup 678 | lpansi" and have it pop up on your \
local printer by way of whatever command you want Konsole (or whatever) to use to \
print.  I suspect that Konsole would go through the KDE printer stuff to do it, as it \
probably does for the screen.

Anyway, getting back to the main thing:  This is something that should be supported.  \
When I'm at work, I have to use PuTTY since they're using Windows, but if I'm home \
and using my laptop, or whatever, I should be able to do the same thing.  Of course, \
I could redirect the output to a file and then use file transfer for the hosts that I \
use that support it, or, copy and paste each page of the file for those hosts that \
don't... but I shouldn't have to.

Thanks for understanding.


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