Remote Printing Over SCO TCP/IP?

[trevor at trevan.uucp]

paulz at sco.COM (W. Paul Zola) writes:


>In article <1991May19.204503.1754 at rfengr.com> rfarris at rfengr.com (Rick Farris) writes:
>}I'm trying to figure out how to automatically print on a
>}printer attached to another host.
>}

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>}
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>}Rick Farris  RF Engineering POB M Del Mar, CA 92014  voice (619) 259-6793
>}rfarris at rfengr.com     ...!ucsd!serene!rfarris      serenity bbs 259-7757


>The following article from the SCO Information Tools database should help 
>with your problem.   I'm posting because I think this may be of general
>interest.

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>How do I set up remote printing with SCO TCP/IP?

>KEYWORDS: printer remote lpinit mkdev rcmd 

>RELEASE:  SCO TCP/IP Generic

>PROBLEM:  How do I set up remote printing with SCO TCP/IP.

>SOLUTION: The following steps outline how to set up remote printing
>	  with SCO TCP/IP.  
>	  

>		Device name  <enter "/dev/null">

Dont do this on ODT 1.0. We reported a bug with this method some time ago.
the line printer scheduler send a sighup to processes associated with 
/dev/null when it finishes printing (I thing this is a security feature!).
This will kill some of those processes. The work around is to make a special
null file ie

	mknod /dev/lpnull c 4 255

This problem was reported to SCO some months ago so I would like to know
if it has been fixed in 1.1. 
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