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From: tai@hptsug2.HP.COM (Tai Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: lp:  SysV/BSD interoperability
Keywords: lpr lp BSD SysV
Message-ID: <539@hptsug2.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Sep 88 22:53:24 GMT
References: <160@leibniz.UUCP>
Reply-To: tai@hptsug2.UUCP (Tai Jin)
Organization: HP Strategic Grants Program
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In article <160@leibniz.UUCP> tpc@leibniz.UUCP (Tom Chmara) writes:
|We have a number of different workstations around here.  I'm having trouble
|trying to get the HP workstations (which use the AT&T System V spooling
|facilities) to be able to use the SUN file server's printer (SUN uses the
|Berkeley spooling facility).
|Any chance to get one to recognize/work with the other?  Am I destined to
|have to port the Berkeley stuff to the HP environment or vice-versa?
|	Please advise...
|		---tpc---

In HP-UX 6.2 and 2.0 the rlp spooler is compatible with the BSD
spooler but uses SYS V models, etc.  You should be able to use it to
send and accept print requests to and from other BSD spoolers.

...tai