Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!ucsd!sdcc6!beowulf!mattson From: mattson@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Jim Mattson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT Technical Alert 90-2: Remote Printing to non-NeXT computers Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 91 16:59:39 GMT References: <339@next.com> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: beowulf.ucsd.edu amarcum@next.com (Alan M. Marcum) writes: >Printing from NeXT computers to printers on non-NeXT machines doesn't work >with release 2.0. I never got this to work with 1.0 either. >Workaround [deleted] >Note: Even after applying this workaround, you won't be able to >print to non-NeXT printers from the PrintManager application. >Also, if you're logged in as root, you won't be able to print to >non-NeXT printers from some applications (for example, Digital >Librarian). There is no workaround for these cases. Alternative workaround. If you have access to a Sun-3, you might try an atom version of a statically linked Sun-3 version of lpr. I did this under 1.0 with a SunOS 3.4 lpr, and it seemed to work for everything under 1.0. I've only had 2.0 up for a few days, but it seems to work for everything under 2.0 too. Caveat: I don't have a NeXT printer, so I don't know what happens there. (And to think that I was going to go back to that 2.0 distribution disk and pull off the new NeXT lpr! I can't believe I thought this problem might have been fixed. Now, why would I think that? ;-) --jim -- Internet: jmattson@ucsd.edu Bitnet: jmattson@ucsd UUCP: {ucbvax|rutgers|bellcore}!ucsd!jmattson