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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Changing lpd's model of operation slightly...
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As lpr/lpd are not likely to be coming from another project in a new form,
I guess you van make improvements like this.. make sure the Man page is
VERY CLEAR about anything non standard.. What about lp-ng?


On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> As you should now be aware, I've been working on some fairly
> heavy-handed reorganization of the lpr/lpd suite.  One of the things
> which I'm thinking of doing may be a bit controversial, and so I'd
> like to know what other people think.
> 
> What I'm planning on doing (or rather, have done and am planning on
> committing once it's tested) is to separate the actual job-printing
> functionality out of lpd and into a separate program which lpd
> execv()s as necessary to start a printer.  This allows that part of
> the program to not occupy any memory resources while it is not being
> used, but does increase the memory used on machines that host active
> printers.
> 
> I think that this will make lpr/lpd a bit cleaner, and is a worthwhile
> change, despite the magnitude.  (I have other, even more significant
> changes coming.)
> 
> -GAWollman
> 
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