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From: sgf@cs.brown.edu (Sam Fulcomer)
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Subject: Re: Help needed:  Does anyone have a berkeley lpd running on Irix?
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Date: 28 Feb 90 15:31:44 GMT
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In article <9002271720.aa04757@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> HAMM@biovax.rutgers.edu (Greg Hamm) writes:
>We're trying to get a few SGI's set up in a sea of VAX/VMS and bsd
>Unix boxes.  Tying together printing services is one of the things we'd
>like to do, and the best way on the Unix side would seem to be to use
>the Berkeley 'lpd' scheme.  However, this is not provided with Irix, and,

We have lpd and transcript running on our SGIs, however the tty code was
sufficiently ugly that (since our PS host is a Sun) we didn't rewrite the 
local serial print stuff. It works more or less like a charm.