{"id":996,"date":"2009-04-14T21:45:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=996"},"modified":"2009-04-14T21:45:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T20:45:09","slug":"legacy-unix-always-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"Legacy Unix always works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great, I now have a printer that works, but not due to any fancy new features, and also not due to my brilliance, though it should have. But again I am reminded <acronym title=\"OpenSolaris Printing issues\">(via Google)<\/acronym>  to remember the one thing that Unix is, it&#8217;s files everything in \/dev is a pointer to the device, which for all intents and purposes is just a file. So to print, just <acronym title=\"copy\"> cp<\/acronym> to \/dev\/printers\/1 which in my case was the USB printer. So by bypassing the fancy stuff, you just call it a file and point at it. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great, I now have a printer that works, but not due to any fancy new features, and also not due to my brilliance, though it should have. But again I am reminded (via Google) to remember the one thing that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=996\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Legacy Unix always works<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,2,10],"tags":[219,234,233],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy-server","category-general-it-issues","category-linux","tag-opensolaris","tag-printing","tag-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}