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From: mrgreen@mame.mu.OZ.AU (matthew green)
Subject: Re: POSIX implementation of BSD's LPD available?
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Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 12:44:46 GMT
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In <rcpt.768167471@rwa.urc.tue.nl> rcpt@rwa.urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers) writes:

>We are moving from Ultrix (BSD) to SGI (SYS5). Because I am accustomed
>to Berkeley's lpd spooler and have some software written for it I am
>desperately looking for an implementation that is easy portable to that
>platform. What comes into mind is a POSIX implementation of lpd. Is
>there any? Or can't it be done at all? At least SGI's port of lpd is
>buggy and unreliable.


irix (the os you'll find sgi ship) comes with a berkeley
lpd system.  i'm told it works - i know people who use
it.  be warned, how ever, that being derived from the
bsd lpd source, it comes with the same set of bugs, and
you should get the patches from sgi to fix the numerous
security problems that have plagued lpd.