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From: pcl@robots.ox.ac.uk (Paul Leyland)
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Subject: VMS lpd (Line Printer Daemon) wanted.
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Date: 23 Apr 91 14:01:17 GMT
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We have a VAX cluster, with a number of printers attached.  We also
have a few Suns, a DECsysttem 5500 and a Convex C120.  The cluster
runs VMS 5.4 and the other machines run various flavours of Unix.  we
are in the process of installing VAX-Ultrix Connection software on the
cluster.

The problem to be solved is enabling the Unix machines easily to send
files to be printed on the VMS peripherals.  Much the cleanest
solution would be to run the "lpd" daemon on the cluster.  We have
source for the Unix version of lpd, but porting it to VMS looks like a
major task.

Does anyone know of an implementation of lpd under VAX/VMS?  Source
code would be especially nice.

Please mail me, and I'll summarize responses to the net.

Thanks in advance,
	Paul Leyland (pcl@convex.oxford.ac.uk by preference)