yakker@ucrmath.UCR.EDU (The Rastafari Yakker) (11/06/89)
We are trying to obtain some public domain program out there somewhere that allows two (or more) printers to run on a single queue in SunOS, or BSD. We would like to get this program without having to change our entire structure of the way we print materials here...Has anyone written a proper filter to allow for this, and if so, can you send it to me via E-mail? It would be MUCH appreciated. The code we have written is a quick patch-like job, but we need something for the long haul. Thanks for your help. It uses the BSD lp(?) format. yakker@ucrmath.ucr.edu ..!ucbvax!ucsd!ucrmath!yakker Matt Robinson, Systems Group "People use algebraic symbols University of Califonia at Riverside to describe things they don't Department of Math and Computer Science know anything about."
perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison) (11/10/89)
In article <2381@ucrmath.UCR.EDU> yakker@ucrmath.UCR.EDU () writes: >We are trying to obtain some public domain program out there somewhere >that allows two (or more) printers to run on a single queue in SunOS, >or BSD ... can you send it to me via E-mail? Better yet, post it, preferably to comp.sources.unix or comp.sources.misc. I'm sure it would be of considerable general interest. > The code we [UCR] have written is a quick patch-like job ... Likely to be useful nonetheless. Maybe you could post this version to alt.sources if you don't consider it worth archiving.
rusty@garnet.berkeley.edu (11/11/89)
mdqs (multiple device queueing system) can do this. With it you can have M queues feeding N printers where M and N >= 1. You can get it via anonymous ftp from vgr.brl.mil; it's in the directory arch. -- -------------------------------------- rusty c. wright rusty@violet.berkeley.edu ucbvax!violet!rusty