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From: lienhart@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lienhart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: lpr/lpd for HP-UX
Message-ID: <5570465@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 90 19:30:25 GMT
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Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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Printer classes in conjuction with remote spoolers are not supported.
The primary objective for using classes is to handle several printers
of the same variety and send requests to the one that is available.
All the printers in the class as usually located in a common area
so a user does not have to hunt too far to find his/her printout.
If remote printers were allowed to be set up as a class, the user
would have to hunt far and wide to locate his/her printout.  Also
remote classes would require the sending scheduler to know which remote
printer is "likely" to be available next.  This necessary data just is
not available between remote systems.

Thus it has been determined that remote classes just do not make any
real sense.

Bob Lienhart