From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 21 23: 5:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1A0B37B418; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 23:05:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8M652u25500; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 00:05:02 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f8M650725463; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 00:05:01 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200109220605.f8M650725463@harmony.village.org> To: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: LPD problems in 4.4-STABLE Cc: Cy Schubert , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Sep 2001 01:58:26 EDT." References: <200109182102.f8IL29h65842@cwsys.cwsent.com> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 00:05:00 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Garance A Drosihn writes: : >Having said that, all UNIX systems I've worked on, except for AIX, do : >not completely adhere to the RFC, hence printing from non-conforming : >systems would definitely break. : : Based on what I have seen over the years, I doubt that there is ANY : implementation which strictly and completely follows the RFC... :-) Based on working with Leo in the late 1980s when the LPR spec came out, it documented things not as they were, but as Leo wanted them to be... It is no wonder that there are no unix compliant LPR/LPD programs because a DOS TCP/IP dude wrote it... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message