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- From: senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: can lpr and lp share a printer?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.114520.1517@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 11:45:20 GMT
- References: <howarth.712364458@proto>
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- In article <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.
-
- I have a related question. I downloaded pcnfsd from sgi.com because
- I thought is was compiled to work with "lp" and not "lpr". Is this
- true? When I try to use my SOSS "lpr" command from a DOS Machine,
- it tells me that these no "lpd" printer attached (which is true) on the
- host machine, but there is an "lp" printer attached.
-
-
-
- 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?
- > Jack
- >
- >
- >--
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Jack W. Howarth, Ph.D. Univ. of Texas Medical School
- >Research Fellow P.O. Box 20708
- >Department of Biochemistry Houston, Texas 77225
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >howarth@proto.med.uth.tmc.edu Phone: 713-792-5667 FAX: 713-794-4150
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