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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: SysV lp spooler a security hole
Message-ID: <7255@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 09:35:19 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  8 09:35:19 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Sep-87 07:15:19 EDT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <1986@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
[... other topics ...]
|1.	There is no reason why more than one printer name cannot be associated
|with _one_ physical printer using _one_ physical I/O port.  The usefulness
|here is to invoke the _same_ printer in a different fashion merely by
|specifying a different printer name as an lp(1) argument.  For example,

This works, but there is a mechanism in place to pass options, which
works as well, and allows things to be reconfigured somewhat more easily.
|
|2.	The lp spooler works fine with plotters and other display devices,
|and will pass 8-bit data from specified files very nicely.  Some customization

Good point.  Anything may be spooled...  another interesting use is to
have one login on a remote machine which allows remote execution of
'lp'.  This allows spooling on machine A of jobs to be printed on
machine B, etc. This can be time restricted if desired. I use this to
print things from home on my work machine, rather than carry paper back
and forth.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me