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In article <34908@adm.brl.mil>, blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB) writes:
 > Mehmet D Ertas <ertas@athena.mit.edu> writes:
 >     "SGI supports printing with lpr only if the printer's on
 >      a non-sgi machine, but not vice versa, as far as I can tell."
 > 
 >      Hogwash!  We have printers on SGI's and Sun's and use lpr exclusively
 > to send files to from ALL machines and with no problems.  Just manually set
 > up your printcap and hosts.lpd files the same as you would on any standard
 > BSD UNIX machine.  Currently we are using parallel ports on our SGI's for
 > the printers, however I know of people who use the serial ports too.
 > Good luck.
 > 
 >   Brent L. Bates				Phone:(804) 864-2854
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 >   E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero00.larc.nasa.gov

OK, but what do you use for the BSD filters ?? Our suns have NeWSprint (as
probably do yours) which is not portable to SGIs.
So what does a typical entry in you SGI printcap looklike for a postscript printer on the parallel port ?

Why does SGI state in the system admin manual "Sillicon Graphics, Inc. does not support using lpr on your system to access a printer that is connected directly to your system ?" Are there some bugs in the sgi implementation of lpr ? Is it just that it is not in the prefered flavour of System V ?

Guy

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