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- From: stan@dixie.com (Stan Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: HP remote print server SYSV like or BSD like ?
- Message-ID: <a!jmqwg@dixie.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 23:30:39 GMT
- References: <c8dm=4n@dixie.com> <1992Jul22.163014.16577@eye.com>
- Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access. The Mouth of the South.
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- paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Thanks for the consice summary of a confusing (to ma anyway)
- sunject.
-
- Stan
-
-
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