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From: BILLW@MATHOM.CISCO.COM (William "Chops" Westfield)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: TCP-IP Print Spooler
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Date: 5 Jun 90 17:35:24 GMT
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Any number of tcp terminal servers can be configured in various ways
to allow rs232 printers to talk to unix spooling systems.  The three
common ways are:

	1)  hack lpd to know about tcp connections.

	2) hack the printcap files so that the appropriate filters
	   do the actual data transmission instead of lpd.  This is
	   probably the easiest.

	3) various utilities will create a /dev/foo type device which opens
	   a tcp connection to an appropriate destination when accessed.


Bill Westfield
cisco Systems.
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