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- From: bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske)
- Subject: Re: can lpr and lp share a printer?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.163727.28274@news.iastate.edu>
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske)
- Organization: EAI, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <howarth.712364458@proto> <nsoeph4@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:37:27 GMT
- Lines: 68
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- In article <nsoeph4@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >In <howarth.712364458@proto> howarth@rice.edu (Jack W. Howarth) writes:
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- >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.
-
- A most apropos time to follow up:
- (hideous laugh, ominous organ music in background)
-
-
- Any chance of getting ahold of such a script as the one mentioned
- above, Dave? I'm still chasing this tiger's tail...
-
- Here's the situation: Personal Iris 4D/35 running Irix 4.0.1 with no
- problems and a serial cable hanging off of serial port 2 going to a
- server-jet haning on an HP LaserJet III. All of our other SGIs can
- connect via remote printer connection using the vadmin printer tool
- and all of these print, work, and play quite nicely together. On the
- horizon looms CAP6.0, PCNFS, and the modified Clarkson University TCP
- package. 'PIPS' is a 'remote printer' set up on pi which looks to
- (where else?) pi to print to the local printer 'pips'. This was a
- kludge in an attempt to get lpr to print something. I've been changing
- the printcap file A LOT, trying different things.
-
- After trying a multitude of things with lpr, here's where I stand:
- pi:lpr my.file
- pi:lpq
- waiting for queue to be enabled on pi.eai.iastate.edu
- Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
- 1st bryan 74 my.file 143 bytes
- pi:
-
- SYSLOG is spewing:
- Jul 29 11:04:49 pi lpd[3074]: unknown printer
- Jul 29 11:09:05 pi lpd[3080]: unknown printer
- Jul 29 11:13:21 pi lpd[3083]: unknown printer
-
- And my printcap looks (for the moment) like:
- lp|pips:\
- :lp=/dev/lp:\
- :af=/usr/adm/lpd-acct:\
- :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:\
- :mx=0:\
- :rm=pi.eai.iastate.edu:\
- :rp=:pips\
- :sd=/usr/spool/lpd:
-
- Now I know I left out bits of the whole picture. It's unix, so what do
- you want?
-
- ANY creative solutions or kludges welcome.
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
- Bryan
-
-
-
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