From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 7 23:21:16 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA22650 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 23:21:16 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA22643 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 23:21:04 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA24921 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 08:20:58 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA21151 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 08:20:58 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA11703 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 08:03:27 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509080603.IAA11703@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Printer setup/configuration To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 08:03:27 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9509072126.AA28101@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Sep 7, 95 03:26:15 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 872 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Sean Kelly wrote: > > But this is really sidestepping the issue: there should be a way to > pass specialized arguments to the filters. That's why I prefer > Patrick Powell's PLP, a freely-available replacement for LPD. It's > compatible with the LPD protocol, and has a few nice extensions, > especially for handling NFS-mounted spooling directories, multiple > printers on a single queue, and specialized arguments to the filters. Does it actually handle multiple printers correctly? Last time i tried (1.1.5.1, but the lpd stuff hasn't changed much), lpd was broken enough to throw every request onto the printer that's just being active at the time the request has been made, gratuitously ignoring the "-P" argument. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)