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From: bambi@kirk.nmg.bu.oz (David J. Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Spooled LPR/LPQ Support
Message-ID: <999@kirk.nmg.bu.oz>
Date: 13 Jun 90 17:30:05 GMT
References: <9006091845.AA03904@terminus.umd.edu>
Organization: Network Management Group, Bond University, Australia
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From article <9006091845.AA03904@terminus.umd.edu>, by dzoey@TERMINUS.UMD.EDU:
> 2)  Here's what we do in the labs that don't have transparent network printng.
>     We have a small TSR that spools the print output to disk.  When the
>     user exits the application he/she is notified that there is print

What we do here sounds similar.  We have written a TSR that spools
printer output to disk,  waits for a predefined time-out period, and if
the file has not increased in size during this time-out period a
connection is made to the LPD on a UNIX host.  The standard LPR/LPD protocol 
is used to spool the file.

Unfortunately, we have not completed work on this package yet, so it is
not available for public distribution.  Public distribution (to
Universities etc I assume) will be considered when the next revision
(including loading the TSR into EMS memory) is complete.


BTW: this sits on top of FTP's PC/TCP version 2.03



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