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From: beame@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Beame)
Subject: Re: LPR, LPD for PC
Message-ID: <281CF009.275@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Keywords: LPD    
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
References: <1991Apr26.220134.20793@ethome.et.iupui.edu> <_-zg-jm@rpi.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 04:18:16 GMT

In article <_-zg-jm@rpi.edu> barryf@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Barry B. Floyd) writes:
>damon@thunder.et.iupui.EDU (Damon Beals) writes:
>
>>Hello Neters.
>>	I am looking for a program that runs on a IBM PC that will allow
>>a printer connected to the Parallel or Serial port to work like a Unix server
>>like LPD or something.   The example, to place a pc in a lab that students
>>telneting to a Unix machine can print to the lab printer not attached to the
>>unix machine.  A remote print server of sort.  Any other products?
>
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>>*           Damon Beals <<< damon@thunder.cadcam.iupui.edu >>> 		*
>>*      Indiana University - Purdue University At Indianapolis, IN 	* 
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> 
>According to the documentation and product literature for PC-NFS 3.5
>the LPD command is supported for any node on the network with a printer
>attached. I too am interested in whether or not this is available and
>works well. Actual hands on experience and reflections thereof are
>needed.
> 
>barry
>
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	Sun's PC-NFS provides an LPD which can handle several printers
off the same PC, with the program running in the foreground or background.
You would probably run it in the foreground as it takes up an additional
130K of memory.

	Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd. in their new BW-NFS 2.20 has a 
background only LPD which can only talk to a single printer per PC. It
takes less then 6K of memory.

- Carl Beame
Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd.
(416) 648-6556


