Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 08:03:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printer setup/configuration Message-ID: <199509080603.IAA11703@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9509072126.AA28101@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Sep 7, 95 03:26:15 pm
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As Sean Kelly wrote: > > But this is really sidestepping the issue: there should be a way to > pass specialized arguments to the filters. That's why I prefer > Patrick Powell's PLP, a freely-available replacement for LPD. It's > compatible with the LPD protocol, and has a few nice extensions, > especially for handling NFS-mounted spooling directories, multiple > printers on a single queue, and specialized arguments to the filters. Does it actually handle multiple printers correctly? Last time i tried (1.1.5.1, but the lpd stuff hasn't changed much), lpd was broken enough to throw every request onto the printer that's just being active at the time the request has been made, gratuitously ignoring the "-P" argument. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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