From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 1 13:56:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.roe35.lth2.k12.il.us (unknown [209.175.240.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E0237B401 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:56:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dallen@roe35.lth2.k12.il.us) Received: from dougs_laptop (dougs_laptop [209.175.240.20]) by mail.roe35.lth2.k12.il.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA07516; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 16:00:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dallen@roe35.lth2.k12.il.us) Message-ID: <200108011602200247.01D881F1@mail.roe35.lth2.k12.il.us> In-Reply-To: <200108012040.f71Ket224506@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <200108012040.f71Ket224506@bunrab.catwhisker.org> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.00.01.02 (1) Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 16:02:20 -0500 From: "Douglas G. Allen" To: "David Wolfskill" Cc: "FreeBSD Stable Listserv" Subject: Re: printcap question Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David, >Yes. The bare IP address might work, but as noted, I don't do that. I have people telling me it should, but it's not any real problem to make another entry in /etc/hosts to cover myself (and the printer). >Or you can think of the networked printer as being an incredibly simple >"host" that has a fancy printer attached. :-} True. >(Fair warning: I suspect that HP's implementation of lpd leaves a lot >to be desired, such as the ability to queue requests.) But if they say a printer is lpd compatible, then I would at least expect it to understand the information sent to it by lpd. My guess is that it won't queue requests, unless it has a drive of some sort in it, other than on the machine that asks for the print job. Very much like a Windoze client does with the same printer(s). Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message