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From: daveh@xtenk.sgi.com (David A Higgen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Remote printing -- BSD to SYSV
Summary: lpd available soon for SGI machines
Message-ID: <46147@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 11 Dec 89 23:41:58 GMT
References: <34941@cornell.UUCP> <MITCH.89Dec7102805@hq.af.mil>
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <MITCH.89Dec7102805@hq.af.mil>, mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitchell..Wright) writes:
> kowalski@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Jeffrey Kowalski) writes:
> 
> >Is is possible to remote print to a SYSV printer from a BSD printer?
> > [ ... ]
> >]connection to butternut is down
> >]
> >]acacia: waiting for butternut to come up
> >]Rank   Owner      Job  Files                                 Total Size
> >]1st    jeff       0    junk.txt                              5511 bytes
> >
> >So, there you have it.  What gives?
> >
> The problem is that the System V machine does not have lpd running.  It
> probably doesn't have it at all.  To allow such remote printing, there are a
> few things that you can do...
> 
> 	1) Write a simple version of lpd for the System V machine.	
> 	2) Port an lp[dr] to your SV machine. PLP is in the Public Domain.

lpr/lpd will be available as an optional alternate printer management system 
for SGI machines in the next (3.3) release, coming in a couple of months.


			Dave Higgen