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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: lp vs lpr
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 13:56:38 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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- In article <1i89n4INN11s@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cq377@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David C. Williss) writes:
- >
- >
- >PS: Oh, specifics. The Printer is on an SGI Iris running IRIX.
- >The Other machine is a Sun IPX.
-
- The System V and BSD line printer spoolers are completely different. They
- use different protocols to transfer files and won't talk to one another.
-
- Many IRIX versions include a full BSD line printer spooler, but it's not
- documented anywhere in the manuals. There are man pages for it. Blow away
- all the horrible SysV garbage and install an /etc/printcap. Then use "lpr"
- to print your files on the IRIS and delete lp completely.
- --scott
- (developing an intense hatred for System V these days)
-