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- From: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: HP remote print server SYSV like or BSD like ?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.163014.16577@eye.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 20:30:14 GMT
- References: <c8dm=4n@dixie.com>
- Organization: 3D/EYE, Inc. Ithaca, NY
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- In article <c8dm=4n@dixie.com> stan@dixie.com (Stan Brown) writes:
- >
- > Is the HP remote print *server* SYSV like or BSD like?
- >
- I'm pretty sure this is right.
-
- The hp-ux print spooler system is SYSV (lp, lpadmin, and lpsched are SYSV),
- _but_ the mechanism used for remote printing across a network is BSD-based
- (rlp and rlpdaemon). Has to be this way because SYSV (at least the versions
- that hp-ux is based on) has no capability for networked printers; only BSD has
- that. If you check the man page for the remote spooling daemon (rlpdaemon) and
- client (rlp), you'll find this:
-
- AUTHOR
- rlpdaemon was developed by the University of California, Berkeley and
- HP.
-
- The confusion is caused because you never really use rlp directly. HP simply
- has a SYSV printer model, rmodel, which calls rlp for you. The rlpdaemon just
- listens for these BSD-style requests, massages them a bit and dumps them onto
- the local SYSV based print spool.
-
- I've successfully gotten Sun's and Apollo (speaking the BSD dialect of
- DomainOS) to print to HP's. No experience w/ Dell, though.
-
-
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- Paul B. Booth (paul@eye.com)
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