leo@unipalm.uucp (E.J. Leoni-Smith) (03/05/91)
mike@uc780.umd.edu writes: >Does anyone know if there is a program for MSDOS that can sit around >on an ethernet and look for LPD print jobs and then throw them out >on one of its serial or centronics parellel ports? We are looking to >offload handling the band-printer(s) we have from our UNIX system >and have them served in this way. I know there are several terminal >servers that will do this, but we don't have the $$$ right now to go >out and buy one just for this purpose, but we have quite a number of >old PC's just sitting around that could be used for this purpose. >Thanks. Yes. Its called PC-LPD and you get it from Ftp software. Try e-mailing sales@ftp.com Its good: We sell it and use it inhouse.