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From: jas@proteon.com ("John A. Shriver")
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Subject: Novell and TCP/IP integration
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Date: 11 May 89 16:01:56 GMT
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No, Proteon has never plumbed Novell spoolers to UNIX lpd spoolers.
However, folks do use the PC/FTP lpr to spool to the Apple
LaserWriters, which all live on Sun's.  Of course, we use the shared
ProNET-10 driver, which was the first shareable NetWare driver.
Most people use WordPerfect on the PC's, which drives the cranky old
HP LaserJet's on the Novell servers just fine.

Since the spooling has to be done as a Value Added Process on a
server, it's not something that could be considered easy.  The VAP
programming environment is not exceptionally friendly.  Or you might
have to kludge it through a really funky printer driver on the server.
It might wind up that the easiest way to do it would be to have a VAP
in the server reflect the data back to some other workstation via IPX,
which in turn would rebundle the data for lpr/TCP to a UNIX machine.

The mail relay, by comparison, is easy, since CC:mail just uses DOS
file sharing to do it's stuff, and has no hooks specific to any file
service protocol.  It will run over NetWare, Vines, NFS, et. al.