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From: chet@CWNS1.INS.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers
Subject: Re: LPS20 -- User info wanted
Keywords: Network laser printer
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Date: 9 Feb 90 00:07:49 GMT
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In article <9002072151.AA21158@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU>, jmr@NADA.KTH.SE (Jan
Michael Rynning) writes:

> According to a DEC salesman I talked to, the printer can only be hooked
> up to DECnet, so if you want to use TCP/IP with it, you'll need an ULTRIX
> machine as a gateway.

This much is true.

> He also told me that the software that runs on the
> ULTRIX machine doesn't support the UNIX LPD protocol, so you'll have to
> implement DEC's proprietary printer protocol on your TCP/IP machines.

I'm running the Printserver Decnet software on an Ultrix 3.0 machine, with
few problems.  The `Printserver Client' software that I'm running came with
an updated/enhanced lpr/lpd system.  I can print just fine from other Unix
machines to the LPS20 via the Ultrix machine using the regular 4.3 BSD lpd
software.

Chet Ramey				"Can't you pay a grad student to 
Network Services Group			 read the manual for you?"
Case Western Reserve University			-- Bill Wisner,
chet@ins.CWRU.Edu				   	to Peter Honeyman