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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Anybody know of an enet/TCP printer?
Message-ID: <4117@phri.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 89 17:07:55 GMT
References: <1989Nov7.210143.26795@t2ns1.gcs.co.nz> <13207@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY
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In <13207@s.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron) writes:
> Something I've always wondered about ... most workstations come with
> a serial port.  Does anybody use that serial port for a local printer?

	Most of our diskless Sun-3s (2 RS-232 ports each) have one (or
sometimes 2) serial devices hanging off the back of them, either terminals
running normal logins or printers of various sorts.  I'm not sure what you
mean by "local" printer; all our Sun-driven printers are accessable via the
normal Unix lpr mechanism.
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