JetDirectFS 1.01
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Background
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Elliott Hughes released JetDirectFS 0.01 back in 1998. When I 32-bitted
this software, I got in contact with Elliott Hughes. He acknowledged that
I may take his source code as presently available from
http://www.riscos.org/jetdirect/ and apply the GNU GPL to it.

I started with this version, made it 32-bit clean, fixed a few bugs and
added the possibility to print from the command line by just copying a
file to the JetDirectFS filing system. The source code has almost changed
completely as I restructed a lot and use OSLib now, but from a user's
point of view the module behaves almost identically to the old 0.01 version.

I tested it successfully with my HP Color LaserJet 2550Ln. Please give me
feedback about your experience with JetDirectFS.


Installation
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Copy the JetDirect directory into Boot:Choices.Boot.PreDesk (or whereever
is appropriate to your set-up) and reboot. Configure !Printers to use the
PostScript printer driver and to print to a file. As filename, give one of
the following:

	JetDirectFS:<netaddr>
	JetDirectFS:<network>!<netaddr>
	JetDirectFS:<network>!<netaddr>!<service>

where <network> can be one of "tcp" or "udp", <netaddr> can be an IP address,
a hostname or a fully-qualified domain name and <service> can be a service
name (must be declared in InetDBase:Services in order to work) or the port
number. <netaddr> must be the network name of your JetDirect printer. The
default value for <network> is "tcp" and the default value for <service> is
9100 if omitted. Don't bother ticking "Append to file".

That's it. Produce your masterpieces in whatever applications you choose
and press print.


-- 
Original author:
Elliott Hughes <enh@jessies.org>

Current maintainer:
Stefan Bellon <sbellon@sbellon.de> <http://www.sbellon.de/>
