From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 28 07:57:21 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA16277 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 07:57:21 -0700 Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA16261 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 07:57:12 -0700 Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA12018; Thu, 28 Sep 95 14:56:49 GMT Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1 (1.38.193.4)) id AA09070; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 08:56:46 -0600 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 08:56:46 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <9509281456.AA09070@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> To: imb@scgt.oz.au Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509281412.AAA04216@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> (message from michael butler on Fri, 29 Sep 1995 00:12:26 +1000 (EST)) Subject: Re: Low end PS laser, or inkjet/bubblejet Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Michael: Okay, PLP, the Portable Line Printer Spooler, is available from these locations: ftp://ftp.iona.ie/pub/plp (main site, but slooow) ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/utils/plp ftp://ftp.beckman.uiuc.edu/pub/plp ftp://ftp.zod.wau.nl/pub/mirror/plp ftp://ftp.lps.ens.fr/pub/software/plp ftp.uni-paderborn.de:/pub/unix/printer/plp It was originally written by Patrick Powell, and later modified and ported by an Internet-wide group of hackers. It compiles on FreeBSD fairly painlessly (I did have to edit setproctitle.c and add a #include and #include , and remove a declaration of malloc, calloc, and sys_siglist). PLP became an effort independent of Patrick Powell, who teamed up with one of the major PLP contributors Jason Mason, who together recently released an alpha version of LPRng, or Line Print - the Next Generation. It's quite similar to PLP, actually, but I haven't delved deeper into its differences. You can get LPRng from ftp://dickory.sdsu.edu/pub/LPRng/LPRng-1.2.2.tgz It compiles on FreeBSD even more easily than PLP. And yes, I know, I should make ports out of these. Soon, I promise. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA I took a baby shower. -- Steven Wright