pgf@cayman.COM (Paul Fox) (04/05/91)
Archive-name: internet/lpr/lprclient/1991-04-03 Archive: ftp.cayman.com:lprclient.shar [143.137.1.2] Original-posting-by: pgf@cayman.COM (Paul Fox) Original-subject: Re: LPR for 386 UNIX (part 1/2) Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article <1991Mar24.012918.23603@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes: >moorejm@stat.appstate.edu writes: >> I have an enviroment of 3 Sun 4/110's 4 VAX/VMS boxes and 1 AT&T >>6386wgs running AT&T SYS V 3.2. The SYS V box uses AT&T enhanced TCP/IP >>WIN/386. This tcp implementation lacks lpr/lpd. 8-( Has any one ported >>lpr/lpd to this enviroment??? *PLEASE say yes* The other machines > >Yes. A port was done and has been posted here several times. I guess >it's time to post it again, so here it is. To use this you need to get >the 4.3BSD lpr sources and then apply these patches. > There's another solution -- we (Cayman Systems) make freely available an lp to lpr interface package that we provide for the benefit of our customers that have GatorPrint. GatorPrint is the software package that runs on the GatorBox and provides lpr-to-LocalTalk printer access. It is equally adept at connecting lp to UNIX-based lpr's, since the GatorPrint software is emulating an lpr daemon. Our package, lprclient, installs as an interface script under lp, so users continue to type "lp", "lpstat", etc. It is based (with permission) on the lpr client code in Richard Stevens' book "UNIX Network Programming". (I don't have my copy handy -- hope I got the title right -- it's from Prentice Hall) You can ftp the package, a single shar file (lprclient.shar), from ftp.cayman.com. PLEASE DO NOT CALL THE CAYMAN SYSTEMS TECHNICAL SUPPORT GROUP WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS PACKAGE... It's not that they can't answer them, but they'd rather spend their time answering questions from paying customers. :-) I can answer questions sent via email, but will not respond to phone calls about this. paul fox, pgf@cayman.com Cayman Systems, Inc., 26 Landsdowne St., Cambridge, MA 02139 -- paul fox, pgf@cayman.com, (617)494-1999 Cayman Systems, 26 Landsdowne St., Cambridge, MA 02139