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From: cliffb@cjbsys.bdb.com (cliff bedore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: TCP/IP and Printer-Sharing ???
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.234222.14854@cjbsys.bdb.com>
Date: 12 Jan 91 23:42:22 GMT
References: <1991Jan4.001756.11917@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de> <1991Jan5.134530.7865@cjbsys.bdb.com> <777@tiamat.fsc.com>
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In article <777@tiamat.fsc.com> jim@tiamat.fsc.com (Jim O'Connor) writes:
>In article <1991Jan5.134530.7865@cjbsys.bdb.com>, cliffb@cjbsys.bdb.com (cliff bedore) writes:
>> In article <1991Jan4.001756.11917@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de> horke@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de (Bernhard Kroenung) writes:
>> >Is there any possibility to share a printer between two machines runnig
>> >TCP/IP ??? Any hints ? Any PD-Programms ?
>> >  Ciao
>> >    Bernhard
>> Try something like cat filen | rcmd otherhost lp.

>The way we use with Xenix machines is:
>Given:	machineA, machineB, and printer1 connected to machineA
>
>change this line to look like
>
>printer1: rcmd machineA lp -dprinter1
>
Of course this is the right answer.  I answered the question of how to rsh and
ignored the solution that we ourselves use.  I must have been wearing my
"duh-uh" hat that night.

Cliff