This is a winsock lpr print spooler from Germany. It works as follows. You
set up your Windows print manager to spool the print jobs to a particular
file and directory. The lpr spooler runs in the background and when it sees
new print jobs in this spool file, it processes them and lpr's them over.
Works great. Very nice.
Jack
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Jack W. Howarth, Ph.D. Univ. of Texas Medical School
Research Fellow P.O. Box 20708
Department of Biochemistry Houston, Texas 77225
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From: wayne@Cayman.COM (Wayne F. Tackabury)
Subject: Re: Winsocks: Class 1 v. LocalTalk
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At 07:16 PM 11/18/93 -0500, David Sarcastic wrote:
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>No available winsock packages support LocalTalk [Class 5], right? My
>heart shall remain tragically broken?
The issue extends beyond the Localtalk data link. Primary interest in LT
would involve AppleTalk support. Even if your only interest was IP at the
network layer, it would be customary to have it embedded in AppleTalk DDP;
at least it works that way in the Macintosh world, with standard LocalTalk
-> Ethernet routers which have means of forwarding such embedded IP frames
onto Ethernet as native IP.
There has been some talk, mostly only talk, in the AppleTalk Networking
Forum about having a WinSock implementation for AppleTalk as a part of their
transport independent AT or Windows AppleTalk DLL work. If you're really
interested in seeing who if anybody is working on an implementation of this,
my recommendation would be to contact either Pacer Software, Farallon, or
Miramar Systems.
As fate would have it, all of this works with the standard components for
the AppleTalk support in Windows NT (although IP forwarding on LT isn't in
the package, last time I looked).
-- Wayne
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