tony@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Anthony Olejnik) (03/09/91)
What implementations of 'lpr' are there for MacOS? I know of Su-lpr, are there any others? Also, for SU-lpr (and others, if there are any) can you 'redirect' a Mac application's printing feature to SU-lpr? (I know how to use SU-lpr from the 'apple' menu to print a TEXT file. What I'd like to be able to use a lpr implementation from within my application. And, while I'm on the topic, I'd also like to *NOT* be limited to TEXT only files, like I think is the case with SU-lpr). Thanks. --Tony Olejnik Network Engineer University of Pennsylvania Data Communications and Computing Services 3401 Walnut Street Suite 221A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6228 (215) 898-9408 tony@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu
peter@netlab.cis.brown.edu (Peter DiCamillo) (03/14/91)
I've just finished updating an lpr program I wrote for MacTCP, and it is
available now via anonymous FTP to brownvm.brown.edu. It's a self-
extracting Compact Pro archive, found in the file lpr11b1.seahqx.
This version of lpr is fairly standard, but does have a few special
features. An option is available to have text files formatted on the
Mac. The formatting can include interpreting the Pascal directives
{EJECT} and {TITLE text} which are used by one of our programming
courses. For our IBM mainframe users, selecting "VM Printer" in
the "Destination" settings causes lpr to request a userid and password
which is verified by the LPD server on the host. Finally, lpr can
print a set of files together by reading a file which lists the files
to be printed. This version of lpr is only useful for printing Macintosh
text files. I find it quite useful for printing MPW sources files on
our mainframe printer.
Peter DiCamillo
cmsmaint@brownvm.brown.edu