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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: can lpr and lp share a printer?
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 02:06:43 GMT
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- In <howarth.712364458@proto> howarth@rice.edu (Jack W. Howarth) writes:
- | I am trying to discover if I can start up a lpd daemon to
- | print to the same printer that already is being used by lp. The reason is
- | that we have lp set up so that NFS can allow us to print remotely to the
- | printer through lp from another Iris. However, no PC shareware supports
- | lp for printing from a PC to a unix box; only lpr. Thus, I would like to
- | have both lp and lpr directed at the same printing but not crashing on me
- | if they fight over it. Is this possible or not?
-
- In a word, no. With assorted hacks you might be able to get it
- to work. I've seen scripts here that cause lpd to create lp
- jobs in the past (or was it the other way around?); anyway, that
- is probably the only approach that would work.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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