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From: petervc@sci.kun.nl (Peter van Campen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Another extension to PCNFSD
Message-ID: <2142@wn1.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 11 Sep 90 13:36:38 GMT
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Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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In <954@massey.ac.nz> GEustace@massey.ac.nz (Glen Eustace) writes:
>  Some time ago, Geoff Arnold (Sun Microsystems) asked for comments
>  regarding extensions, improvements to the facilities provided by the
>  PCNFSD daemon.
I never saw Geoff's article, but I do have an idea for an extension to
pcnfsd, regarding the use by PC-NFS users of all possible options of the
lpr-command when mounting or using a printer.

It would be nice if one could say something like:
NET USE LPT1: \\HOST\lp-p-m
which would have the effect of pcnfsd issuing the command:
lpr -Plp -p -m filename.
Of course one could choose another "option-separator-character".

I never got to putting the few lines of code in pcnfsd.c that would
accomplish this, but I think it would be a nice feature.

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Peter van Campen, petervc@sci.kun.nl,  Computer and Communications Department
Faculty of Science, University of Nijmegen, 6525 ED NIJMEGEN, The Netherlands
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