Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!umigw!ibiza!aem From: aem@ibiza.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Comp.sources.aux Comp.binaries.aux Message-ID: <655@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> Date: 16 Aug 89 00:46:36 GMT References: <4269@portia.Stanford.EDU> <572@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> <1989Aug10.174030.27634@nc386.uucp> <625@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> <1989Aug15.180903.5779@nc386.uucp> Sender: news@umigw.MIAMI.EDU Reply-To: aem@Mthvax.CS.Miami.Edu Lines: 26 allbery@nc386.uucp (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: >I found passing a print job to another system via either uux or remsh (you >call it "rsh") in a printer model to be trivial. The problem with remsh is either having to set up a "print" user and doing convoluted setuid thingies to send the files, or more easily, giving users accounts on the machines with the printers, which I really didn't want to do. Besides, my machines were already set up for lpr/lpd. I didn't want to change anything just because a few a/ux systems were forced on us. >The problem with dropping lp in favor of lpr is that programs like e.g. >WordPerfect have a tendency to expect the lp spooler on System V systems, and >won't install properly if you aren't using lp. (Yes, on a Mac you're more >likely to run the MacOS version of WP -- assuming A/UX 1.1 can handle it -- >but I'm talking generic System V.) We don't, and don't plan to, run any MacOS software. The few things that users have asked to run, don't run under A/UX 1.1. aem a.e.mossberg - aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu/aem@umiami.BITNET - Pahayokee Bioregion Chances that a homeless American holds a full- or part-time jobs: 1 in 5 - Harper's Index 2/89