Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato.ac.nz!aukuni.ac.nz!russell From: russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Wanted - LPR to a telnet terminal server. Message-ID: <1991Jun26.041942.927@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> Date: 26 Jun 91 04:19:42 GMT Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand. Lines: 17 What we want to do is drive printers attached to terminal servers (TRW telnet servers) from our SGI 4D Unix box. In particular I was wondering if anybody has patched PLP to do this. I am aware that the LPR protocol handles spooling by passing whole files at a time. THis means that the host driving the printer *must* have space to store the file. i.e. it rules out programming the terminal servers to understand LPR. (this was our first hope :-() What we are now looking at is having the lpd open a telnet session to the server instead of spitting the file out a serial port. Thanks, Russell. -- Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand.