Printing text files with Fedora (impact printers)

[Tom Diehl]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Rodrigo Malara wrote:

> Hi to all,
> 
> my company is acquiring an impact printer and we would want to print
> plain text files with it. In MS-DOS we would do the following:
> 
> type file.txt > LPT1
> 
> So, my question is: Can we (and how) do it using linux too? We have
> fedora core 1 running here...

Add it to cups using redhat-config-printer* and print to it like any other
printer.

Maybe "lp file.txt" or whatever you do to print to any other printer.


....Tom