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From: tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Using local printer with TCP/IP
Keywords: TCP/IP on PC, Local Printer
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Date: 11 Jul 90 20:36:08 GMT
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In article <5807@balu.UUCP> eing@cosmo.UUCP (Hubert Eing/Hubert Eing
Textilveredlung) writes:

$ I want to connect a PC under MS-DOS over a TCP/IP connection
$ to a Unix Host under 386/ix from Interactive with 386/ix TCP/IP.
$ Is it possible to use the local printer on the PC as a UNIX printer ?

One approach to this would be to port or emulate Berkeley Unix's lpd
program to MS-DOS.  It would tie up the PC however.  Unless, however,
as someone has already suggested, this could be run as a TSR.  If you
*did* port lpd, I would be interested in getting a copy.  Unix people
would be very happy to use a printing hos that used lpd (line printer
daemon), and they would not know that the host was not running Unix.

On your Unix system, you would need to run lpr and lpq.  I think
they are available for System V.
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