Sdriver; Sdriver General Information; Using Sdriver In Stand-Alone Mode; Using Sdriver In Spooler Back-End Mode - Oki B6100n Administration Manual

sdriver

sdriver is a UNIX print filter that drives printers that can support raw TCP/IP sockets.
Additionally, sdriver will drive printers that are attached to the network via a print
server that can support raw sockets. sdriver is compatible with printing systems that
are found in most of the major UNIX operating systems. You use sdriver for sending
printable data from standard input to a remote printer.

sdriver General Information

sdriver will establish a network connection to the printer or print server in either a
stand-alone mode or a back-end mode, by receiving information that you provide in
flags at execution time.
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Using sdriver in Stand-alone Mode

In stand-alone mode, you can pipe the output from any UNIX command directly to
sdriver, which in turn, will send the data to the printer for printing.
sdriver will accept input via standard in (stdin). Data types accepted by sdriver
include: PostScript files (including ASCII code and binary image data), DOC, and text
files.
To use sdriver in stand-alone mode, enter the following command at the command
line:

Using sdriver in Spooler Back-end Mode

In spooler back-end mode, sdriver acts as the conduit between your spooler and the
printer. There are several types of output that sdriver can provide in this mode. These
include:
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UNIX Printing Software Administration and Installation Guide
Refer to Table 6-2, "sdriver Command Option Flags," on page 6-99
all available sdriver flags.
cat filename | /usr/sbin/sdriver -Phostname -pport
#
where identifies the host name.
-P
where identifies the socket number.
-p
Spooler sends a file through sdriver to a printer.
sdriver opens a TCP/IP socket to the IP address and port number specified by the
user when the queue was created. The spooled stdout is connected to sdriver's
sdriver
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