kahn@wucs1.wustl.edu (Michael Kahn) (03/18/89)
I face the onerous task of installing papif on a System V machine. The dependency of papif on a BSD style of line printing (with /etc/printcap, /etc/cap.printers, etc) makes me think this goal is not attainable. Anybody out there been successful with this? If not, anybody sufficiently knowledgable to point me in the right direction? Michael Kahn (kahn@wucs1.WUSTL.EDU)
corwin@daedalus.UUCP (-David C. Kovar) (03/19/89)
I'm at home at the moment and my copy of CAP for a Masscomp is on a tape at work so I'm doing this from memory. If I recall correctly, the hardest part, for me, was just figuring out the system V line printing system. papif itself does not depend on any 4.3BSD lpr'isms. It needs cap.printers or and environmental variable to resolve the full name of the printer you want to use and that's it. After that it is just a filter with stdin on one end and AppleTalk protocols on the other end. There may be other problems with compiling it on a sysV machine, such as signal handling, but it will not have anything to do with lpr depedencies. -David C. Kovar Technical Consultant ARPA: kovar@husc4.harvard.edu Office of Information Technology BITNET: corwin@harvarda.bitnet Harvard University MacNET: DKovar Ma Bell: 617-495-5947 "The difficult we did yesterday, the impossible we're doing now."