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From: prs@tcsc3b2.tcsc.com (Paul Stath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Two printers/one queue
Message-ID: <1990Jul5.193728.4862@tcsc3b2.tcsc.com>
Date: 5 Jul 90 19:37:28 GMT
References: <1725@charon.cwi.nl>
Organization: The Computer Solution Company, Inc.
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jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen) writes:

>We want one of our printer queues to be shared between two
>identical PostScript printers.
>So, if both printers are operational they will process the
>queue with double speed, and if one of them is down, then the
>operational one will do all the work.

>Does anybody have experience with such a setup?

>The printers are remotely driven by a VAX 750 running BSD 4.3 UNIX.


Does BSD 4.3 Unix vary from AT&T SV so much that there are no such entities
as printer groups in the LP spooler??

I have had very little experiance w/BSD, but it seems like most of the
ideas that held true in one had a similar concept in the other.
In AT&T SV you can spool your requests to a group called, say postscript,
and then have printer ps1 and ps2 as members of that group.
The spooler will use both printers in the group to process the spooled
print jobs.   

If this is not the case, I'm sure glad I'm working on an AT&T SV box.


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