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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: hosts.lpd
Summary: SunOS 4?
Message-ID: <3229@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 89 20:04:40 GMT
References: <568@laic.UUCP> <2020@csuna.csun.edu> <532@bnr-fos.UUCP>
Reply-To: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
Organization: Michigan State University, Computer Science Dept.
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In article <532@bnr-fos.UUCP> hwt@bnr-public.UUCP (Henry Troup) writes:
>SunOS at least supports /etc/hosts.lpd, allowing hosts that you 
>don't trust to print.  Is this standard BSD? or a useful Sun feature :^)

  SunOS 3.[45] doesn't.  Are you talking about SunOS 4?  Our Ultrix
machine (2.2 I think) supports hosts.lpd; I believe it's a BSD thing.
I don't know why it isn't in SunOS 3; maybe it's a 4.3 innovation?

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