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From: hughes@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (larry hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Novell -> LPR printing
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.000414.8866@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 91 00:04:14 GMT
References: <1991Feb15.151750.29389@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1991Feb16.131204.2135@dcs.simpact.com>
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In article <1991Feb16.131204.2135@dcs.simpact.com> jeh@dcs.simpact.com writes:
>In article <1991Feb15.151750.29389@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, hughes@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (larry hughes) writes:
>> Someone here has heard rumour about a mechanism for converting
>> Novell print jobs into LPR jobs.  It's supposed to be public
>> domain software available on a DECUS tape.  [...]
>> *Please* respond via email...thanks in advance for any info.
>
>Please also respond via News.  There are a lot of other folks out here who 
>are interested in this and similar capabilities.  

No word on the DECUS tape, but several pointers to a package called
"charon" available via anonymous ftp on omnigate.clarkson.edu in the
/pub/cutcp directory.

I haven't tested it yet, but if it does everything the docs say
it does, I'll be quite pleased. Bidrectional LPR <-> Novell
printing is just one feature.

Also, I received a note from a Novell rep; NetWare V3.11 is scheduled 
to ship in March, and has similar capabilities (and NFS serving to
boot).

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