pcl@robots.ox.ac.uk (Paul Leyland) (05/17/91)
A little while ago, I posted a request for information about a Unix-compatible line printer daemon to run under VAX/VMS. Now that the response rate has fallen, here's the promised summary. First off, let me thank the following people for their assistance: bernards@ECN.NL Marcel Bernards meadows@cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu Howard Meadows allen@ecf.ncsl.nist.gov. Dan Allen cczanj@vax.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk Andy Jack lilianstrom@krang.fnal.gov Al Lilianstrom mvrf6@tnofel.fel.tno.nl Martin van Roon jansen%decnet.madraf@vms3.macc.wisc.edu Stephan Jansen barkelew@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu David Barkelew xxseub@osprey.lerc.nasa.gov Steven Eubanks hughes@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu Larry Hughes wong_a@summer.chem.su.oz.au Adrian Wong smith@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu Ross Smith cliffb%isavax@uunet.uu.net Cliff Bedore (Some of the above are "metoos", but thanks anyway.) Most everyone recommended CMU-TEK. For example: > You could buy CMU-TEK 6.3 (or higher ?) from the Carnegy-Mellon > University for a few hundred bucks We have that stuff here on almost > all our VMS systems. LPR LPD TELNET FTP SMTP and some more stuff is > implemented very well. > Lotta cheaper than UCX or Multinet. and ... > You can order CMU-TEK 6.5 for $200 on TK50 at: > Karen Heilman > Carnegie-Mellon University > 4910 Forbes Avenue, UCC 124 > Pittsburg, PA 15213, USA Matthew Madison made the following offer ... > I have taken the CMU-Tek LPR/LPD software (from V6.4 with some mods) and > ported it to UCX. If you've got CMU-Tek already, I can share it with you. However, Dan Allen said: > I have a version of LPD/LPR originally developed for VMS and > The Wollongong Group's WIN/TCP software. A number of people have > expressed an interest in using it with UCX and a port of the client > (VMS print symbiont) was done by a gentleman in Germany. The server > code is being converted by a gentleman in Atlanta at this time. The > last report I had was that it was working and he was in the process > of final testing. I'm maintaining a list of people who are using this > software and will announce new versions as they become available. > > The source (VAX C) for TWG and the UCX symbiont are available > via anonymous ftp from this site (ECF.NCSL.NIST.GOV = 129.6.48.2). It > is stored as a VMS saveset (BSDPRINT.BCK). The other commercial offering mentioned was Multinet. For example: > Buy Multinet from TGV instead of UCX as Multinet's LPD server allows exactly > what you want. Works real nice. I have it running on a number of machines. and ... > P.S. IMHO Multinet from TGV beats the pants off UCX at this juncture and > is a heck of a lot cheaper. It provides all of the usual Internet > services including BOTH CLIENT AND SERVER NFS! Great support and > nice people to work with to boot. They also have a discount for > educational institutions. and ... > Switch to MultiNet, it has solved our Unix->VMS printing > problems and appears to be quite a robust implementation of TCP/IP > for VMS (much better than CMU). Some surprising net software runs > under MultiNet (rusers, finger, rsh etc.). At the moment I'm reading > the news using ANUNews (for VMS), which is using the NNTP service > over MultiNet to query a Unix news server. Nice! Once again, thanks folks. Paul Leyland