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How to have all the Printserver features without a Printserver.

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From: sharpe
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 14:40
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Well, 

at long last I am able to report that the ln03r et al printing software to give
you more features is up on gatekeeper.

It is in the directory /pub/DEC/ln0356r.tar, available for anonymous FTP I 
believe ...

Here is the first page or so from the instructions:
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How to have all the Printserver features without a Printserver.

 By Eric R. Schott
   Jeff Glass and others are mostly responsible for this work!
   Slight tidy-up of this document by R Sharpe.

Files: /pub/DEC/ln0356r.tar on gatekeeper.dec.com via anonymous ftp.

*** PLEASE NOTE ***

These files and instructions are provided as is WITH NO WARRANTIES of any kind.
No one in Digital can offer any support for these modifications and
instructions.

*** END NOTE ***

The specialized PostScript features such as "-N" (number up),
"-L" (layup files), "-K" (double sided), and ansi translation
are supported only for PrintServers (i.e., LPS20s and '40s).  With just
a little hacking, though, you can get it to work for LN0[356]rs,
and LF*r printers too, because much of the work necessary to use
Postscript printers with the PrintServer Client software exists,
it just isn't supported.

These directions assume you have a working postscript, that you want
to enable these features on.  All other printcap fields operate
normally, only add/change the ones we describe below.
You should be sure to have the latest lpd and lat patches (available from your
CSC) for V4.1 and V4.2.
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Regards
Richard Sharpe
These opinions be mine, Digital has its own!
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