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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Two printers/one queue
Message-ID: <1990Jul24.001548.13867@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 24 Jul 90 00:15:48 GMT
Organization: Home System (One of the Eternal Champions); Eagan, MN, 55123-2507, USA
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In article <1725@charon.cwi.nl> jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen) writes:
> We want one of our printer queues to be shared between two
> identical PostScript printers.
> [...]
> Does anybody have experience with such a setup?

Yes, but on system V -- they have something called "classes" of printers, which
does exactly what you are describing.  I don't think vanilla bsd has an
equivalent feature.

derek
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Derek Terveer		det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG