Remote printing -- BSD to SYSV

[Mitchell..Wright]

kowalski at svax.cs.cornell.edu (Jeffrey Kowalski) writes:

>Is is possible to remote print to a SYSV printer from a BSD printer?
> [ ... ]
>]connection to butternut is down
>]
>]acacia: waiting for butternut to come up
>]Rank   Owner      Job  Files                                 Total Size
>]1st    jeff       0    junk.txt                              5511 bytes
>
>So, there you have it.  What gives?
>
The problem is that the System V machine does not have lpd running.  It
probably doesn't have it at all.  To allow such remote printing, there are a
few things that you can do...

	1) Write a simple version of lpd for the System V machine.	
	2) Port an lp[dr] to your SV machine. PLP is in the Public Domain.
	3) utilize the filters in printcap to execute a script that would 
	   rsh <host> lp <options> <file>
	   in one form or another.  This method works fine as a quick hack,
	   but I do not recommend it to be used in a production environment.

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