Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 00:05:00 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LPD problems in 4.4-STABLE Message-ID: <200109220605.f8M650725463@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Sep 2001 01:58:26 EDT." <p05101000b7d1d330a409@[128.113.24.47]> References: <p05101000b7d1d330a409@[128.113.24.47]> <200109182102.f8IL29h65842@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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In message <p05101000b7d1d330a409@[128.113.24.47]> Garance A Drosihn writes: : >Having said that, all UNIX systems I've worked on, except for AIX, do : >not completely adhere to the RFC, hence printing from non-conforming : >systems would definitely break. : : Based on what I have seen over the years, I doubt that there is ANY : implementation which strictly and completely follows the RFC... :-) Based on working with Leo in the late 1980s when the LPR spec came out, it documented things not as they were, but as Leo wanted them to be... It is no wonder that there are no unix compliant LPR/LPD programs because a DOS TCP/IP dude wrote it... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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