On Apr 6, 2005, at 2:58 PM, McKown, John wrote:
RATS! You mean I didn't invent that? I can't patent it? RATS! I was
going to make a bazillion dollars with that! RATS! (or substitute with
the rodent of your choice)
Well, it seems that everyone is realizing a couple of fundamental
things:
1) The easy way to do this is with some sort of IP connectivity between
the boxes
2) It's easier to use someone else's protocol than to roll your own.
Syslog's nice; another thing that works pretty well is lpd; lp really
makes for a pretty decent generalized spooling mechanism. No reason it
has to have anything to do with printers.
These days, of course, the same thing mostly gets done with
SOAP/XML-RPC or something like that using HTTP as a transport. This is
actually what I'd recommend if you're going to make this a
production-quality application rather than a quick-and-dirty hack.
Adam
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