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From: etb@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Bushnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Beware Sr10.3
Keywords: sr10.3
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Date: 6 Mar 91 22:57:30 GMT
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>In article <2300@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au> iaf@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (- Mathematics) writes:
>>		
>>	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,
>
>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.
>>
Since then, I have tried getting lpd to run on my token ring,
which has a 10.3 node as print manager and server. Sure enough,
it didn't work.

The prsvr locks /dev/sio1, so a printcap spec of lp=/dev/sio1
on that host reports device busy. (Makes sense) I tried running
the lpd on another host, with a printer on the sio1 port. Then
lpr reports "no daemon present." Apparently the master lpd
won't fork properly.

Curiouser and curiouser. The ethernetworked host that runs
lpd and a laserjet w/o trouble is down today. Strange that
it should work so easily, given these troubles. Is the 
token ring doing something strange?

I remember some discussion of lpd here in recent weeks.
Anybody wanna repost a summary? Sounds like a subject for
the FAQ file, too.
>
>>        Question: Does anyone have a solution?
>
>Sacrifice a virgin. Say the magic words "A la peanut butter
>sandwich."  Get a bigger hammer. 
>
Time to find a REALLY big hammer...
>
Eric Bushnell
UW Civil Engr
etb@zeus.ce.washington.edu