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From: ber@enea.UUCP (Bjorn Eriksen)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.wanted
Subject: hunt with lpr
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Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 22:39:21 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 22:39:21 1985
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Has anyone done, or thought about doing anything to make the
lpr command in 4.2BSD able to choose one of several identical
printers, just like tip 'hunts' a free autodialer?
In /etc/printcap I would like to specify something like

	...:lp=/dev/tty01,/dev/tty02:...

and then have lpr to select the printer with the smallest
queue left, the fewest number of bytes to print or whatever
criteria that could get the printing job done as fast as
possible.

Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

-- 
	Bjorn Eriksen
	ENEA DATA Sweden

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