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From: shore@adobe.COM (Andrew Shore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: lpr/lpd problems re. non-NeXT-connected remote printers in 2.0
Keywords: lpr, lpd, print spooling, 2.0
Message-ID: <8856@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 90 02:00:17 GMT
Reply-To: shore@adobe.COM (Andrew Shore)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
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I've just discovered a bug in NeXTOS 2.0 relating to spooling to remote
printers connected to non-NeXT machines.

It seems that NeXT is putting a new "command" in the lpd control information
(the "cf" spool file) that most other BSD-based (and hence lpd-speaking)
Unix hosts cannot cope with.  The end result is that jobs spooled from 2.0
to remote printers on non-NeXT machines will NOT print.  The remote lpd will
barf.  Mail *may* get sent to "daemon" about the difficulty.

NeXT is aware of this problem (as of this afternoon), and working on it.

Note: If you have a 2.0-beta version that did not exhibit this problem
(e.g., fuchsia), you *might* be able to replace the 2.0 /usr/ucb/lpr with
the fuchsia /usr/ucb/lpr.  Note sure though.

--Andy Shore
  shore@adobe.com