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From: hughes@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (larry hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Wollongong TCP/IP and Printer Sharing
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Date: 1 Dec 89 18:38:18 GMT
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In article <8911300708.AA14015@wubios.WUstl.EDU> dave@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU (Dave Camp) writes:
>>
>>In article <464@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> jml@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Michael Lodman) writes:
>>>of the things I would like to do is have the PCs share a
>>>printer tied to a Unix host. 
>>:
>>>Does someone know how to accomplish this? Is there software,
>>>commercial or otherwise to do this? Thanks!
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. etc.
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>I have hacked out a simple solution to this problem.  We do not use it
>in production, so I do not know how it holds up.
>

The FTP server at NCSA also has a version of LPR for DOS, which
permits real LPR queueing.  It's not part of the standard NCSA package;
it's in the /contrib directory (or something close to that anyway).

It comes to us compliments of Paul Hilchey of University of
British Columbia.

The only caveat I could find, after testing it, is that it doesn't
work with packet drivers.  But I still like it!

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