hosts.lpd

[Brian V. Smith]

In article <1260 at avsd.UUCP>, childers at avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) writes:
> 
> rang at cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang) writes:
> 
> >hwt at bnr-public.UUCP (Henry Troup) writes:
> 
> >>SunOS at least supports /etc/hosts.lpd, allowing hosts that you 
> >>don't trust to print.  Is this standard BSD? or a useful Sun feature :^)
> 
> >I don't know why it isn't in SunOS 3; maybe it's a 4.3 innovation?
> 
> It was added to BSD 4.3, it was unknown in BSD 4.2.
> 

Let's see how many "In article ... writes:" we can get for this subject.

But seriously, folks.  Ultrix has (since 1.2) always had the /etc/hosts.lpd
file to allow host access to the printer daemon.
Strange that 4.2BSD didn't have it.  I thought they were always ahead of DEC.

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Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith at lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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