A port of lpd (Was: re: pseudo lpr for IRIS)

[Scott R. Presnell%Langridge]

In article <37519 at sgi.SGI.COM> jweldon at renegade.sgi.com (Jack Weldon) writes:
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>I will send this to any interested parties in shar form (a Makefile and lpr.c)
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>Jack Weldon -- jweldon at sgi.com
>Communications Engineer
>SGI Hotline


I have made a reasonably complete port of the BSD line printer stuff to
IRIX (3.1B and up).  Lpd, lpr, lpq, and lprm work as they should, though I
have not tried to use an Iris machine for a "server" to a printer. (I'll
be working on that soon).

I would be willing to send (or post, should that be appropriate) **diffs**
to the 4.3 BSD source, but I cannot post the source code in it's entirety
(legal issues, you know).  The diffs are about 25K.  The port was done on a
4D/20G. 

The major difficulties in the port include a lack of support for Unix
domain sockets and some missing/different system calls (like fchown).
Things that have not been ported correctly (yet) include checking the file
system for enough space when spooling a job (I'll get to it if SGI does
not).

Later.

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