[ic] Redirecting to paper printouts.

[Stefan Hornburg Racke]

scott d medlock - network engineer <scottm@cosimo.net> writes:

> Have an interesting challenge.....
> 
> A customer wants me to implement Interchange into their retail store
> operation as their Point-of-Sale system
> sharing the database with their webserver.
> 
> Getting that part going isn't much of a problem..  But, something else
> they want has me scratching my head...
> 
> They want their in-store version of Interchange to not email anything...
> They would like to have it send output
> to a printer with all information (including CC) so they have a paper
> ticket and carbon for their customer
> receipt and their own records.
> 
> In short...  place an order in the system and out comes a paper copy...
> 
> Has anyone done this already?

No, but should be easy to do with a sendmail alias which pipes
the email to lpr. Probably you need a little more sophisticated,
but a script doing the conversion, e.g. Email to Postscript
shouldn't be that hard.

Ciao
        Racke

-- 
Racke happily hacks Interchange and maintains Debian packages like Courier.

For projects and other business stuff please refer to COBOLT NetServices
(URL: http://www.cobolt.net; Email: info@cobolt.net; Phone: 0041-1-3884400)