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From: etb@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Bushnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Beware Sr10.3
Keywords: sr10.3
Message-ID: <17825@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 17:22:11 GMT
References: <2300@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <2300@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au> iaf@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (- Mathematics) writes:
>
>	Question: Are all the other sites which upgraded  and had no
>		problem open or closed sites?

The 10.2's were mixed--open and closed. All 10.3 installations
and upgrades have been closed--such as it is. (see earlier news threads)

>		
>	Question: Does anyone out there use lpd and have printers 
>		directly connected to apollo sio lines?

I have a laserjet 3 connected as plain line printer (waiting for
a PostScript cartridge) driven by lpd. I use a basic 4-wire serial
cable, and the plain lp printcap entry. This is only one node,
though. The other printers on other networks run from the Aegis
print servers, because they were set up that way when I got
here and I haven't had reason to change that.

I have had trouble getting lpd to work on the same node that the
Aegis print software runs on, but I  haven't played with that 
combination enough to know how serious a problem it is.
>
>	Question: Do most apollo users only use AEGIS and not Unix?

I loaded Aegis largely because some of my users expect it--it's all
they've learned. Since this is a university, however, the user
community is changing, and I'm moving them toward BSD Unix.

I prefer BSD because it's a familiar face to university computing
folk.

>        Question: Does anyone have a solution?

Sacrifice a virgin. Say the magic words "A la peanut butter
sandwich."  Get a bigger hammer. 

All seriousness aside...I do tend to rely on the Aegis print
manager/server software rather than lpd. It seems to be
easier to configure and run than lpd. Of course, it only
supports a few printers, and you're probably lucky enough
not to have one of them.

Eric Bushnell
UW Civil Engr
etb@zeus.ce.washington.edu