🚀 go-pugleaf

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.

Hah, there's someone else running that brain-dead Intel 3.2 Unix :-(...

> we have to stay with this OS for at least a while longer.

Barring throwing money at the problem (you know how finance guys are)
and getting a real Unix, I solved that problem here by porting
Berkeley lpr to Unix 3.2.  Look for it at my site, ftp.jti.com:/pub/misc/
lpr.  (Yes, the site is actually running anon-ftp service under Intel
3.2...somehow it works!)

By the way, I've never gotten this program to work reliably sending to
PostScript printers via Charon.  Sometimes it works, other times it drops
something.  I think it has to do with the translation commands used in the
Charon config file.

-rich
P.S.  Just another appeal to the Univel folks here:  I want a real Unix,
and _my_ finance guys probably aren't going to shell out the $1300 it
takes [see the editorial in _Communications Week_, I'm not alone in this]
per desktop to turn UnixWare into a usable engineering system.