On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> Mmm, i don't quite follow that. the lpd sits between the program
> output and the system queues or something like that ? You use
> gsprint to generate the printable files from .ps ones, and send it
> to the lpd queue, which sends it to the disk, or the other way
> around, you send the .ps to the lpd, which sends it to the gsprint
> and then to the disk.

It goes like this:

             network
Unix client --------> LPD on (e.g.) windows
(lpr file)            OCaml daemon gets the file
                      |
                      `--> once the file is received, it can be sent
                           to a command of your choice (currently
			   gsprint but is can be anything)

Did I make myself more clear?

> > To be really useful, I think the deamon should be turned into a
> > library.  If enough people are interested, I can open a mailing list
> > for discussions.
> 
> Yes, i guess that would be interesting.

Go to http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ocaml-lpd-devel

Cheers,
ChriS