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From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Providing updates for lpd/lpr/etc
Date: 8 May 1997 20:00:18 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
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Hello All.

Here at RPI we have a large number of unix workstations, which are
running operating systems such as SunOS, Solaris, AIX, and IRIX.
For many years we've been some bsd-flavored lpr suite of unknown
origin for printing support on those workstations.  This year I've
been thinking that it would be nice to get rid of the "of unknown
origin" part of that description.  I looked at the lpr suites that
come from NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.  What we're using at RPI
is pretty similar to all of them, but each of them has a few extra
changes that seem (to me) to be useful.  While I haven't done
anything with FreeBSD itself yet, there are a few others on campus
who are using it and are happy with it.

So, here's what I'd like to do.  I'd like to start with the FreeBSD
sources, and generate updates to it based on changes we have here
at RPI and from the other lpr suites, and then get those folded
back into FreeBSD.  Note that while we run lpr in a production
environment on hundreds of workstations, none of the ones *I* work
on are FreeBSD-based (well, not yet, at least).  So, what is the
best way I could contribute some changes to the FreeBSD tree?

As just one for-instance, I've started by slowly updating the RPI
lpr suite to look more like the current FreeBSD version, and in
doing so I've found two bugs in FreeBSD's version.  One is a
parsing problem with the '-#' parameter on lpr, and the other is
a cosmetic oversight with the output of the status command in lpc.

Who should I contact about these and other lpr-related issues?

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer        (MIME & NeXTmail capable)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA