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From: hurf@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Hurf Sheldon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: trying to remote print ps file to ultrix, help???
Message-ID: <1990Nov12.220646.3617@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 12 Nov 90 22:06:46 GMT
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Organization: Cornell Theory Center
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>I know of no way to send a postscript print job from a HPUX system to
>a BSD system prior to 8.0--which is not available at the present time.
>
>Bob Lienhart

We use a kludge that works by running an rcp/remsh from the HP's to the
BSD system. One could probably set it up as a
shell that did a 'cat file |remsh bsd_system lpr -options'
as this works in the single instance.
The way we have it set up now is a shell, which I think is
built on HP's lpr which is a shell, that rcp's the file to the
bsd's /tmp directory then issues a remsh lp command with delete on
completion. This scheme has been in service for a number of years
here. It was set up by others before me.

Users must have accounts on both systems or you can run suid via a dummy
uid.

There is, somewhere, a properly working bsd lpd for hp-ux - if someone
knows would appreciate hearing about it.

hurf




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