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Date:      Wed, 01 Aug 2001 16:02:20 -0500
From:      "Douglas G. Allen" <dallen@roe35.lth2.k12.il.us>
To:        "David Wolfskill" <david@catwhisker.org>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Stable Listserv" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: printcap question
Message-ID:  <200108011602200247.01D881F1@mail.roe35.lth2.k12.il.us>
In-Reply-To: <200108012040.f71Ket224506@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
References:  <200108012040.f71Ket224506@bunrab.catwhisker.org>

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David,

>Yes.  The bare IP address might work, but as noted, I don't do that.

I have people telling me it should, but it's not any
real problem to make another entry in /etc/hosts to 
cover myself (and the printer).

>Or you can think of the networked printer as being an incredibly simple
>"host" that has a fancy printer attached.  :-}

True.

>(Fair warning:  I suspect that HP's implementation of lpd leaves a lot
>to be desired, such as the ability to queue requests.)

But if they say a printer is lpd compatible, then I would
at least expect it to understand the information sent to it
by lpd.  My guess is that it won't queue requests, unless it
has a drive of some sort in it, other than on the machine
that asks for the print job.  Very much like a Windoze 
client does with the same printer(s).


						Doug


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