david@utzoo.UUCP (David Trueman) (03/14/85)
All of the printer daemons are now unified into one program ``prd'' that
reads a ``config'' file in the spool directory to determine the character-
istics of the printer. Prd(8) normally gets invoked by the spooler, but if
manually invoked, the first argument should be the directory in which the
``config'' file is found, relative to /usr/spool (e.g. prd lpd & for the
line printer).
All the spoolers(1) for the laser printers (hpr, cpr, bpr and soon apr) are
now one binary linked together. Lpr remains separate, although most of the
code is shared with the other spoolers. They all support a new option `-r' to
specify a ``restriction'' on printing. If the following argument does not
match what is in the ``status'' file in the spool directory, the job will be
held until the restriction is met. Coming soon . . . a command to change
the status file while respecting the locking protocol.
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David Trueman @ U of Toronto Zoology
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