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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.

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.

In article <1paql1$qv7@ornews.intel.com> 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
>
>-- 
>George L. Rachor Jr.
>Prefered mail address:
>george@endeavor.intel.com
>

If you upgrade to Interactive 3.01, you will get lpd.

-- 
Ed Whittemore   uunet!maxed!ed   ed@maxed.amg.com
American Micro Group, Inc.   201-944-3293

In article <C4rrDo.DG2@maxed.amg.com> ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore) writes:
>In article <1paql1$qv7@ornews.intel.com> george@ornews.intel.com (George Rachor) writes:
>>[needs lpd for ISC Unix for Novell to print to]
>
>If you upgrade to Interactive 3.01, you will get lpd.
>--
>Ed Whittemore   uunet!maxed!ed   ed@maxed.amg.com
>American Micro Group, Inc.   201-944-3293

While I recommend the upgrade to 3.01, all you really need to upgrade is
the TCP/IP product to 1.3.  1.3 is recommended for fixing many bugs in 
TCP/IP.  My system would panic every hour with tcp/ip 1.2 (this is on
a very busy network).  I ran 1.3 on my 2.2.1 system and only had a few
problems.  The 3.01 kernel is much better with heavy networking.

In summary, upgrade to TCP/IP 1.3, you will get lpd/lpr.  It is
recommended that you also upgrade the OS to 3.01.


-- 
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I don't speak for TI; TI doesn't speak for me    M/S 8515
Work phone: (214)575-6427                        6620 Chase Oaks Blvd.
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