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From: merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: 4.2BSD LPR Spooler Protocol
Message-ID: <328@hqda-ai.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 14:04:15 EST
Article-I.D.: hqda-ai.328
Posted: Wed Apr  1 14:04:15 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 07:46:19 EST
Organization: Army AI Center, Pentagon
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Keywords: bsd spooler protocol


     I need some help.  I have a Sun 3/160 running 4.2BSD.  It's
connected to a Symbolics Lisp machine via an ethernet.  The
Symbolics is naked, but the Sun has a printer.  I'd like to get
the Symbolics to print using the UCB spooler system.

     I have been able to get the TCP connections properly
configured, but I'm having trouble with the protocol.  The manuals
say that the valid requests to the lp daemon are:

1:   ^A printer	    	 Search for and print jobs for "printer"
2:   ^B printer	    	 Accept a new job for "printer"
3:   ^C printer [users...] [jobs...]
     	       	    	 Short list of current queue state
4:   ^D printer [users...] [jobs...]
     	       	    	 Long list of current queue state
5:   ^E printer person [users...] [jobs...]
     	       	    	 Remove jobs from queue

     I'm most interested in number 2, but it might be nice to
implement the others, as well.  I don't have any further
documentation on what, exactly, the protocol is.  Obviously
something follows most of these commands, but I don't know what.

     Is there anyone out there who has documentation on this?  If
so, and you'd be willing to mail it to me, please let me know.
(Don't just mail it off, 'cause I don't want to waste bandwidth
with 20 copies of the same document.)

     Eternally perplexed,
-- 
David S. Hayes, The Merlin of Avalon	PhoneNet:  (202) 694-6900
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