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Re: Summary SLUG meeting 27th Oct

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From: Mike Battersby
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 00:00
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andrewb@com.au (Andrew Bettison) writes:
>Someone also recommended the PLP printer daemon as a drop-in replacement
>for lpd, on the basis that it implements filters properly.  Someone else
>said they'd had problems with plp after upgrading their kernel

Note that PLP has now evolved even further into LPRng, and seems to be
an excellent package.  Unfortunately I seem to have lost the details
of where to get it.

 - Mike

>Someone announced that the WINGZ spreadsheet is now available as
>shareware for Linux, as a full GUI implementation.

But it needs the old a.out X libs (from X11R5 - libX11.so.3), so most
people will have trouble running it.

 - Mike
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From: mib@deakin.edu.au (Mike Battersby)
Subject: Re: Summary SLUG meeting 27th Oct
Date: 1995/11/08
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