LPRng: RedMon - interesting program (fwd)

[John H Terpstra]

Hi  Everyone,

Just thought I'd pass this little snippette your way. It may help someone
to get around the limitations of M$ Windoze printing.

- John H Terpstra

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Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 17:19:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: papowell at astart.com
Reply-To: lprng at lprng.com
To: lprng at lprng.com
Subject: LPRng: RedMon - interesting program

I just ran across the following interesting
helper program for Windows printing support.

It is a desperation thing,  but a useful addition
to your toolkit:

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/index.html

RedMon - Redirection Port Monitor

Transparent PostScript printing from Windows 95/98 and NT. 


Overview

The RedMon port monitor redirects a special printer port to a
program. RedMon is commonly used with Ghostscript and a non-PostScript
printer to emulate a PostScript printer.

RedMon can be used with any program that accepts data on standard
input.

Using RedMon you create a redirected printer port. If you connect
a Windows printer driver to the redirected printer port, all data
sent to the redirected port will be forwarded by RedMon to the
standard input of a program. The output of this program can be sent
to different printer port, or the program can generate whatever
output it desires.


Patrick Powell                 Astart Technologies,
papowell at astart.com            9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D,
Network and System             San Diego, CA 92123
  Consulting                   619-874-6543 FAX 619-279-8424 
LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.astart.com)

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