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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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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <howarth.712364458@proto> <1992Jul29.114520.1517@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 21:10:49 GMT
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- In <1992Jul29.114520.1517@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman) writes:
-
- | 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.
-
- My guess is that pcnfsd is still looking for lpd style printers; I
- don't think we changed that. Furthermore, we don't officially
- support running lpd on our systems, just using lpr for printing
- jobs on some other remote system that supports lpd. It does work,
- but doesn't work with any of our normal printer tools, programs, etc.
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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