ipSpool is a queue processor that manages the pipe between a printer and an internet address.

The story so far:

I have recently purchased a FRITZ!Box fon WLAN 7170 router. This device supports printing using the 'raw' print spooling mechanism, on port 9100.

No printer driver exists on OS/2 or eCS to support this 'protocol', if you can call it that. We do have named pipes though, so I decided it could not be too hard to simply spool the data from a named pipe to the ip address of the router. This actually works brilliantly!

ipSpool is based on the spool driver quePDF written for ePDF. ePDF is a PM tool for postscript to PDF conversion, which uses GhostScript as back-end. You can obtain it from:

http://www.subsys.de

New in V1.03
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* Supports multiple ip spool ports.
* Creates and deletes printer ports using command line options.
* Inbuilt Traffic monitor and popup spooler messages.
* Provides error file logging for more information when things go wrong.
* Postscript prefilter to remove header information that makes some printers stall.

-> URL: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=IPSPOOL103

Source: OS2.org

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