From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 11 16:27:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B54137B990; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 16:27:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA337744; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:27:14 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000711092105.E26861@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20000711092105.E26861@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:28:21 -0400 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:21 AM -0700 7/11/00, David O'Brien wrote: > > LPRng is available in the ports and the folks that need > > its functionality aren't unduely harmed if its not in > > the standard distribution. > >The existing LPR system is (1) becoming non-standard with >the rest of BSD and Unix, and (2) is very antiquated and >certainly isn't to the standards of how a piece of software >should operate today. In what areas have NetBSD and OpenBSD been changing lpr? I have not checked in with their lpr in several years, but I am certainly willing to look those over for any good ideas, once I catch up with my current backlog of work. My guess is that I wouldn't have any time to look over {Open,Net}BSD's lpr until September at the very earliest. I'm also interested in what Darwin/MacOS-10 is up to, as it happens that I'm the main MacOS support person on the RPI campus. (not that we have a lot of Macs, but I do a lot of the support for what we have). I also dabbled a lot with NeXTstations, so I'm predisposed to poking thru Darwin even if RPI wasn't going to run it for anything. I'm not arguing here, I am really interested and you sound like you know of some specific issues. I have had to make an occasional change to our (RPI's) lpr to make things work better with linux users on campus, and now that BSD-ish interest is on the increase at RPI I would certainly be happy to have any heads-up for things to look out for there, too. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message