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- From: vulture@carrion.cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
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- Subject: Re: AT&T & BSD shared printing, how?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.101047.24680@cc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 09:10:46 GMT
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- In article <DEAN.92Sep3131223@world.std.com>, dean@world.std.com (Dean S Banfield) writes:
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- -- At our site we have a BSD style lp with lots of printers and an orphan AT&T
- -- (SCO) box without any printers. How can my SCO get access to the many queues
- -- that the BSD guy controls?
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- Set up a shell function or script that emits:
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- cat name-of-file-to-print | rsh some-bsd-machine -l some-user lpr -P some-printer
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- If it is written well enough, you can even call it lpr and nobody will notice.
- lpq, however, is somewhat more tricky.
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- Thomas
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