[9fans] Printing: Plan 9 to Unix

[9fans] Printing: Plan 9 to Unix

[ed]

Not elegant, but I have been using these for years.  Have Unix accounts
with the same login as the plan 9 name and set the Unix .rhosts file to allow
access from the plan9 systems.  Then:

#!/bin/rc
cat $1 | rx Unix_system 'cat  | /usr/local/bin/enscript -G -Jplan9  -Pstaff'

will enscript a file to a unix printer.  A simple:

cat file | rx Unix-system 'lpr -Pprinter'

works.  Carrying troff from plan 9 to Unix requires some adjustment
since I find the page offset defaults different.  I usually print
through a BSD system because I am more familiar with the print
options.

troff -m[es] file | aux/tr2post | rx unix_system 'lpr -Pprinter'

Ed Wishart