lp/lpr interface

[Root Boy Jim]

? From: "David R. Linn" <drl%backup at uunet.uu.net>

Are you sure that address will work?

? Before I reinvent the wheel, can anyone provide pointers on interfacing
? lpr- and lp-based spooling?  I have a network with both SUNOS/BSD machines
? and HP-UX/SYSV machines and would like to be able to print from any machine
? to any printer; that is, I would like to use lp(1) on an HP-UX machine to
? print across our Ethernet to an Apple LaserWriter on a Sun machine and I
? would also like to use lpr(1) to print from a Sun to a HPIB printer on
? an HP machine.

Well, with BSD, at least you have source. Port lpr/lpd to the machines
that don't have it, and use the filter in lp to call lpr. Then pray.
I am assuming that all the networking code will work everywhere.

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