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- From: frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: can lpr and lp share a printer?
- Message-ID: <2830@contex.contex.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 14:18:52 GMT
- References: <howarth.712364458@proto> <nsoeph4@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <1992Jul29.163727.28274@news.iastate.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul29.163727.28274@news.iastate.edu> bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske) writes:
- >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...
- >
- I am not Dave O, but I do know that Richard Stevens' book "Unix
- Network Programming" will answer this question in excellent detail.
- There is no script in the book, but there is more than enough info
- in there to make a 'lp -> lpr' script or a 'lpr -> lp' script.
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