Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 08:56:46 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) To: imb@scgt.oz.au Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Low end PS laser, or inkjet/bubblejet Message-ID: <9509281456.AA09070@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199509281412.AAA04216@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> (message from michael butler on Fri, 29 Sep 1995 00:12:26 %2B1000 (EST))
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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 <vm/vm.h> and #include <machine/vmparam.h>, 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
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