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- From: rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen)
- Subject: Re: ghostview, part seventeen ;-)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.195917.4000@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <michaelw.721075126@mcshh.hanse.de>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 19:59:17 GMT
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- In article <michaelw.721075126@mcshh.hanse.de> michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will) writes:
- >No, not 17 yet, but...
- >
- >After successfully running ghostview and almost choking after displaying
- >the tiger.ps - I have not seen such goody before ;-) - I tried to print,
- >but it failed because ghostview seems to try to execute a programm called
- >"lpr", which I have not.
- >
- >What is this, does it just dump to the printer, or does it more than that?
- >
- >Greetings, Michael Will
-
- lpr is the print spooler from Berkeley. So far Linux lacks a half
- decent print spooler in popular use. Right now a lot of people are
- using the minix lp (lp is the name of the sysV spooler) which was
- posted while back.
-
- On porting lpr: I tried to port it from the BSD sources a while back.
- At the time Linux lacked file locking, tcpip, and syslog. File
- locking and tcpip are now here, and syslog will be in the next
- libc. I hope lpr will then be a pretty easy port and can be uploaded
- to tsx-11 and friends. If you are working on an lpr port, please
- let me know.
-
- - Ken
-