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From: lienhart@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lienhart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: trying to remote print ps file to ultrix, help???
Message-ID: <5570536@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 90 22:03:24 GMT
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Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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>Printing from HP-UX 3.x (800) and 7.0 to BSD systems works fine !
>We spool postscript files to Laserwriters that are driven by 4.3 vaxen
>and SunOS machines on a daily basis. The remote printer must be "installed"
>using the lpadmin -ob3 flag and so on, but that's it. What's the problem ?

I could believe this as long as the printer was a postscript printer
and the datafiles were always postscript text.  This would work
using the BSD "f" filetype (ascii file).  But using the real BSD
"o" filetype (postscript) would never make it through a 7.0 HPUX
remote spool operation.  See RFC-1179 which describes the BSD line
printer protocol.

Bob Lienhart