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From: pilger@uhunix2.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Eric Pilger)
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Subject: Re: Sun PC-NFS deficiencies
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Date: 16 Mar 91 08:33:22 GMT
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In article <1991Mar15.032416.14133@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
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>You want to check the printer queue, just telnet to the Sun.
>
What's all this talk about telnet?  A simple batch file called lpq.bat
with the contents

rsh machine lpq

gives me quick access to the queue for my most commonly used printer.
This can of course be fleshed out for fancier features.

In the same vein, I also have lprm, enscript, etc.  In addition, there
is internet mail access, remote backup, rdate, ... all the powerful
Unix features I've grown to be crippled without.  This then leads to
the pointlessness of many of the previous arguments.  PC-NFS is not a
PC network.  It is a tool for connecting PC's to a Unix network.  I
use it because I can't afford a Unix workstation of my own.  PC-NFS,
combined with X server software gives me the next best thing.  If you
only use PC's, then PC-NFS is pointless.  I guess that's where PC
networks come in.


Eric Pilger
NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
2680 Woodlawn Drive
Honolulu, HI 96822