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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!newsserver.sfu.ca!rchen
- From: rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen)
- Subject: Re: ghostview, part seventeen ;-)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.000844.18391@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <michaelw.721075126@mcshh.hanse.de> <1992Nov7.195917.4000@sfu.ca> <SCHLI.92Nov10184532@hivehom.cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:08:44 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article <SCHLI.92Nov10184532@hivehom.cs.tu-berlin.de> schli@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schlickenrieder) writes:
- >
- >rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) writes: (That's me)
- >
- >> 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.
- >
- > I hope this doesn't mean I have to have an ethernet card to
- > use it, does it?
- >
- > ...Wolfram
- >
-
- This is a common misconception. Everyone can have a loopback device
- (which allows you to do uninteresting things like telnet and ftp to
- yourself). There are, however, other tcpip clients useful to everyone
- even if you don't have a ethernet card. Talk/talkd for example.
- Lpr/lpd is another. Even a proper implementation of who(1) should
- use tcpip. X11 also uses tcpip. All without ever being connected to
- anyone but yourself.
-
- I hope a while down the road it will be the standard that tcpip is
- compiled into the kernel (it doesn't even take up /that/ much space).
- SLIP is also just down the road and everyone has a serial port.
-
- - Ken
-