Re: printing on a novell printer from Unix 3.2

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From: Martin Tomes
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1993 07:53

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george@ornews.intel.com (George Rachor) writes:

>I've been given the task of adding Novell print services to our existing
>Intel(Interactive Unix 3.2) applications.  I've run into an apparant
>roadblock in that I understand that Novell requires line printer daemon
>(lpd) protocol to talk to it and I don't seem to have this in the version
>of Unix that we are running.  At the moment upgrading to a newer version
>of Unix is not an option we have to stay with this OS for at least a 
>while longer.

>I'm taking the approach of looking for some sort of lpd look alike that
>I can build on our 3.2 systems that lets me print to novell printers.

>Thanks,

>George Rachor Jr.
>Intel Corporation

Which version of ISC UNIX are you running?  Do you have TCP/IP on it?
Version 1.3 of ISC's TCP/IP includes lpr/lpd, versions prior to this
do not work well anyway.

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Martin Tomes
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Subject: Re: printing on a novell printer from Unix 3.2
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